Why is everybody so excited about this new playoff?? I can’t understand what’s so great about it.

Im not…I would rather have a real sixteen team playoff than more engineered garbage. Decide it on the field. Weird how everyone says football is not a playoff sport. Except for Pop Warner, High School, All other college football, Arena and the NFL playoffs it defintely is not a playoff sport.

If I was in the SEC I would be mad as hell because you know that they won’t let 3 teams from the same conference in the 4 team playoff… The new 4 team playoff isn’t fair… especially to strong conferences.

SoPinesHeel - 27 June 2012 07:23 PM

Im not…I would rather have a real sixteen team playoff than more engineered garbage. Decide it on the field. Weird how everyone says football is not a playoff sport. Except for Pop Warner, High School, All other college football, Arena and the NFL playoffs it defintely is not a playoff sport.

16 is too many… I think it would take away a lot of the luster of the regular season… Eight would be good IMO.

But ultimately it is going to come down to who gets the most money and how do we do it.

The BCS is better than this crap they announced yesterday.

said it over and over and over again

top four conference champions, then take the top 4 wildcards. and give the CCs homefield advantage.

CC#1 vs WC#4
CC#2 vs WC#3
CC#3 vs WC#2
CC#4 vs WC#1

I would take that scenario in a heartbeat. It makes too much sense for the powerbrokers to agree to.

Something tells me Swofford and Slive would though. 

ACC haters just need to realize that the ACC is very strategically positioned for the future. The teams have just not lived up to the positions they have been placed in. I contend the conference will thrive in the new format and would REALLY thrive in an 8 team scenario.

I am very excited about this playoff….With that said, a potentially great enhancement can really be screwed up…....like the BCS was with a computer formula that was not “transparent” and a polling process that allows manipulation and just generally left too many unanswered questions to satisfy most.

I’ll tell you the thing that excited me is the fact that college football is taking back New Years Day!  That is something the BCS really screwed up with the mid-week post Holiday BCS Bowls where people were already back to work.

I am for it.

GoTigers712 - 28 June 2012 08:52 AM

said it over and over and over again

top four conference champions, then take the top 4 wildcards. and give the CCs homefield advantage.

CC#1 vs WC#4
CC#2 vs WC#3
CC#3 vs WC#2
CC#4 vs WC#1

Are you OK with rematches or would you juggle the pairings? Stanford plays at Oregon in that scenario.

For 16 teams you would have to go back to a 6 game regular season and then start the playoffs. College football is not baseball. The more games you play the more injuries and soon you are watching teams play with fewer of the players they started the season with. It wouldn’t solve anything. 4 teams is plenty. Very few years will there be any question about it if you matched the most worthy final four teams.

4 teams is fine and that is why they decided on it.

MattSmith - 28 June 2012 10:06 AM

GoTigers712 - 28 June 2012 08:52 AM

said it over and over and over again

top four conference champions, then take the top 4 wildcards. and give the CCs homefield advantage.

CC#1 vs WC#4
CC#2 vs WC#3
CC#3 vs WC#2
CC#4 vs WC#1

Are you OK with rematches or would you juggle the pairings? Stanford plays at Oregon in that scenario.

I thought it would have been
LSU vs Boise
Oregon vs Ark
Wisconsin vs Bama
OSU vs Stanford

but anyways, YES i would be open to rematches if this system was implemented. The rules would be in place at the beginning of the season, there wouldnt be any suprise, and in any playoff the odds of a rematch go up for every round you play. What would you propose, LSU and Alabama both work their way to the final, but since its a rematch you call the game off and declare LSU the winner because they won the regular season?

If you have 16 teams… there will be 12 or 13 teams that have no business bing there… The top 25 is annually riddled with scrubs… Like basketball’s 64, about 55 of them never have a chance of winning… but basketball is less strenuous on the body.

I think this is set up well for the ACC as well.

Who will decide the 4 teams?? a “committee”, HA!! That’ll fly with the college football fan base.

Seminole - 28 June 2012 12:42 PM

For 16 teams you would have to go back to a 6 game regular season and then start the playoffs. College football is not baseball. The more games you play the more injuries and soon you are watching teams play with fewer of the players they started the season with. It wouldn’t solve anything. 4 teams is plenty. Very few years will there be any question about it if you matched the most worthy final four teams.

4 teams is fine and that is why they decided on it.

For an authority on seemingly everything, your basic math skills are lacking.  A 16 team playoff means 4 games max for the two finalists.  There’s 12 reg season games, a conf. champ game and a bowl game now (14 games).  That means a 9-10 game reg season, not 6, if the goal is that no team play over 14 games.  Based on all the talk about the ‘plus one’ model, my guess is that 15 games played by the top 2 teams is acceptable If they do an 8-team playoff, then an 11 game reg season is fine and still allows for the champ. games. and a potential 3-game playoff run.

4 teams is the first step and that is why they decided on it.  Playoffs mean more money and that is why they will decide to add rounds later.