College Football Playoff Predictions

[eceres]

So excited expansion seems over for this year, still dead period so let's talk about Playoff changes...

I think they make it 6 teams (1-2 get bye), nothing changes on rules but we see conference champions of power 5 and 1 more for atleast 3-4 years.

When change? I think after this season talk starts from some conferences and change is 3-4 seasons off (having 5-6 champions in this format).

Other thoughts?

Not many recdnt articles on this...

Predicting 8 teams in 10 years...
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...10-years-alabama-ohio-state-notre-dame-051616

Big12 focused...
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/big-12...yoff--not-its-conference-041937393-ncaaf.html

 

[robcac26]

I say you just take the champions of each P5 conference, you have some sort of poll system to rank the five teams, and have 4 play 5 in a play-in game to narrow it down to the final four. This way everything is decided on the field instead of by some stupid committee, which I think should be the main goal of any playoff system. Independent teams and the other conferences would be left out, and that's fine with me. Tell Notre Dame they're not special and if they want to win a national championship, they have to join a conference just like everyone else. Similarly, the Big XII would need to have a championship game.

You might not end up with the top five teams in the country doing it this way since some conferences might be better than others, but that is the case in every sports league and nobody takes issue with it. This is the fairest way because everything is decided by the players and coaches, and not by some people in a conference room, and it also expands the playoffs to 10 teams without really making the season longer because every conference championship game effectively becomes a national playoff game as well. Best part is nobody gets snubbed by the polls--if you win your conference, you're in. If you didn't make it to the final four, it means you either lost the play-in game, lost your conference championship game, or lost a game that you needed to win to get you into the conference championship.

 

[MorrisAsh]

Big 12 just announced that they'll have a Championship games starting in the 2017 season.