24-Team Playoff In College Football Starting In 2027-2028
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The college football playoff will be expanding to 24 teams next year. I am not sure how I feel about this.
College football has gone through so many changes in such a short time frame and we all know that people don’t like dealing with change.
On the one hand, there will be 24 teams, and given the parity that we’ve seen this year, maybe that’s a good idea because I don’t trust a bunch of old men sitting a room selecting the teams that get into the playoff.
At least if there’s 24, it may seem like it’s a little bit more reasonable.
If you look at the field of 12 teams this year, it’s clear that we might have some 9-3 or 8-4 candidates. I wouldn’t have thought that as possible in other years.
I’m not sure how I feel about conference championship games going away. It’d be nice to call somebody a Big Ten or SEC champion and then let that rule their spot in the playoffs. BUT NO.
Does it makes the regular season less popular?
Fans are going to watch college football if they’re good games. That’s my position on it. I think the more we have balanced opponents in these games, that’s the better for college football. They include this on their new scheduling standards.
They want A4 teams to play 10 games against A4 teams. In other words, you can’t do what Nebraska did this year and play three non-Power 4 teams. The same concept with Indiana – play a non-competitive PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE. When you looked at the number of games in the preseason this year, it was not good. There were not very many hard-fought matchups.
The scheduling standard is probably one thing that they brought to college football that is good about the 24-team playoffs.
What’s bad about this?
ESPN.
We already know about the SEC bias ESPN has. They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
They’ll probably have 14 to 16 SEC teams in the playoff and everybody else can go to hell. College football viewership is down this year except for the SEC, from what I understand. And if they go through with this, it might be down all over next year.
If you want to ruin a regular season, it’s not the 24-team playoff field.
It’s ESPN. They are freaking terrible.
Here’s the better part of the new playoff:
• The 24-team CFP field will be comprised of the four conference champions from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC (as determined by their respective conferences), the highest-ranked team from the American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, OR Sun Belt; and the 19 highest-ranked remaining teams in the final CFP Selection Committee ranking.
• The CFP Management Committee has adopted scheduling standards that will enhance the regular season by encouraging scheduling of additional compelling non-conference, regular season matchups. These standards are outlined in the Fact Sheet section below.
• 16 of the 23 Playoff games will be played on campus (up from four), building on the success of the on-campus games from the current 12-team format.
• No CFP games will be scheduled in conflict with the historic Army – Navy game.
• CFP Quarterfinals and CFP Semifinals will continue to be played at the six CFP bowl partner locations (Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Peach, Rose, Sugar)
Are you for this or against this? Or do you really care?
That’s the question I want to know from you people. It’s changed. College football has always changed. Is this too much change?