I don't follow the NFL now so I don't know if anything has changed but when I did follow, the division winners got byes and home field in games even if they may have had worse records than a team who didn't win their division.
NCAA tourney has plenty of opportunity for teams down the totem pole, CFB doesn't so it's fine IMO. It's one of the few opportunities for a team to raise themselves up on the CFB landscape. Gonzaga at one time was just a tourney upstart but now after making it often enough they've built themselves up to a legitimate team on the national landscape. Why not allow for the same opportunity for similar type teams in CFB. It's good for the sport.
That is dumb. So is this projection with two regular season games to go with big rivalry games plus conference championships.
They're not projecting any of the upcoming games. They're just taking the rankings as they are currently and seeding with the assumption that the highest ranked team for a particular conference as the conference champ of that conference and working down from there.
I always love to hear from the CFP purists in these discussions when it has been around for five minutes. 😂
Well the weekly CFP ranking is pointless too until the final rankings. Don’t take it so serious, it’s just for fun and conversation and seeing potential kinds of matchups.
Well the Athletic’s seedings are coming out that way just because that’s the way the rankings fall not because they’re trying to eliminate the SEC or Clemson.
My point is many of these matchups won't occur. It's a fantasy. I highly doubt nearly all will make it.
That said, it will be an exciting 3 weeks. USC/UCLA this weekend. OSU/Michigan next week. And it's funny that there are Rutgers fans that complain about the Rutgers OOC schedule. To those idiots look at who in the SEC teams are playing this weekend. Look at Alabama, look at LSU opponents this weekend.
Yea it’s like a bye week in the SEC this weekend lol.
Has Ross ever got anything correct??
Michigan is in. They won't fall far if they lose to OSU. Pac12 gets 1 team, ACC 1 team.
How can you institute a hard cap of 3 and take 16? Your obviously using inferior teams and skipping over higher ranked teams just because the conference already might have 3. You don’t think that’s stupid? Never happening sir
What’s has Ross gotten wrong? It’s being reported by Auerbach that they’ve reached an agreement for 2024 and 2025. It won’t be a fixed amount per conference like it is now. Instead it will be a fixed distribution on a per team basis. So say for example of it was 10M/team the PAC would get 100M and the B10 would get 160M…and so on for the other conferences.
You know people still think LSU can get in with two losses if they win the SEC champ game. They’d have wins over Alabama and UGA in that scenario. I still don’t see it and it would be precedent setting for a 2 loss team in a 4 team playoff but it’s out there.
I disagree. The only exception should be independent teams. Why should the runner up SEC pass up a p5 champion. Would you feel the same if Rutgers went 12-1 and won the B1G but got passed up by an 11-1 Tennessee? On top of that it also makes the conference championship meaningful. For example Georgia may want to rest starters for the championship game knowing they would be at worse the 4 seed even if the lost.
You rather see Michigan and USC is a meaningless rose bowl game or Alabama and Clemson in the orange bowl in half empty stadiums where half the starters opt out because the game is meaningless?
Ross previously said about two years ago that 16 team was going to happen. He then changed it to 12 and said that it was a done deal and would start in 2023.
I follow many of these reporters for news but I didn't see anything definitive from anyone that it was going to start at 16. The most I saw was 16 is gaining steam but didn't mean for sure it was going to happen and still other alternatives like 8 or 12 as possible. Same for playoff expansion. I saw most thinking it would expand easily but then Texas/OU to the SEC happened and that fouled things up for a bit but no one ever said guaranteed 2023 or any year for that matter. Regardless, it doesn't matter. If you don't like the source, don't read it.
