Two reasons that the playoffs expanded to 12 teams instead of eight. Reason one is exactly that- the SEC and Big Ten expect to get four teams in or a minimum of three. And reason two is they expect that every year their best teams will get the advantage of playing after a bye.
byes apply to the four highest ranked conference champions each year. the 12-team playoff setup was necessary to break what seemed to be a monopoly of alabama, ohio state, uga, michigan, clemson, and nd in the 4-team championship. the playoff wasn't that at all. fsu getting left out being a prime example. earlier, it was baylor and tcu. the cfp had become a blue blood eye test judged by a committee rather than on the field. it was also not maximizing revenue. this setup will solve some of those issues, presumably.
you know fox and espn are going to influence who follows those four conference champions. it's in their interest to ensure as many b10 and sec teams get in the pool as possible. the end game will be very much debated like lunardi's last four out in hoops.
He is exactly all that. He was thoughtless when he took what Matt Rhule said and
rhule has more on his mind than some random talking head in charolette, n.c. N fans should take finebaum's glare as some sort of validation that husker football still matters on the national scene. he didn't say that about others who have made similar comments.
Are you sure about that? I thought it was 1 through 4 got byes. Not conference champions. It is possible a conference champion may not be in the top 4
Starting in the 2024-25 season, here's the new, expanded format to know: 12 teams will be selected to the Playoff field. The four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded 1-4 and each will receive a first-round bye. NCAA
Oh boy so we could have a #15 ranked team be a conference champion getting a bye. I know that might be extreme but Boise and UCF all over again
yes, teams like the past undefeated ucf and cincy coming out of g5 conferences could theoretically rank higher than say clemson out of the acc or utah out of the b12 and thus win a bye in the first round.
