All conferences are represented in 8 . The BIG, SEC , ACC , BiG 12,with the Pac12 basically blown up .. What other conferences need to be represented?
Until Notre Dame is left out. Oh wait, that's why they have to expand the playoffs to 24, so Notre Dame can lose 3 games and still qualify for the playoffs.
the first game of 48 and the second game of 24 teams, gets you back your 2 regular season games.. then you are left with 12.. sort of like what we have now.. it's just dropping all the silly bowl and conference championship language and calling the whole thing a playoff instead.. it's basically the same thing.
1st off there is 134 Division1 football teams and do you think their going to give 2 regular season games away
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nobody gaf about teams #49-134.. do they even make money? or does having those 2 extra games actually cost them? the bottom of the barrel live off the non-conference payouts.1st off there is 134 Division1 football teams and do you think their going to give 2 regular season games away
2nd, That’s 86 teams that will only get to play 10 games that’s retarded, because football is the cash cow for everyone‘s athletic programs in the country.
3rd, The 3rd week of your nincompoop idea has 12 teams left, the week after winners of 6 teams, who gets the byes with 6 teams left? your idea would take 6 weeks to determine the national championship.
Now what.
1st off there is 134 Division1 football teams and do you think their going to give 2 regular season games away
The man that can’t stand Rhule is in favor of 48 team CFP, now that’s rich.You could solve this with some sort of supplemental tournament. Think NIT in basketball.
This isn't entirely true. Football is the cash cow for the top programs. Many teams operate at a loss or break even. That's why schools like UNO have had to drop it. Besides, see # 1 above.
And? The NFL is 5 weeks. NBA is like 8 weeks. Also, byes are a non-issue. The top rated teams get them, like they do now.
For the record, I'm not advocating for this format. AT ALL!! It's waaaaaaay too playoff heavy for my liking. Just pointing out that your logistical and financial reasons why it won't work are probably not a factor
Also for the record, I think you and @NikkiSixx are both retarded
I kid, I kid (mostly)
was FCS.UNO was never FSC they were D2 in everything when the dropped Football and Wrestling. Trev wanted to move to DI but he had to drop football and wrestling for financial reasons to move Basketball and Volleyball and baseball softball to DI they were already D1 in hockey..The man that can’t stand Rhule is in favor of 48 team CFP, now that’s rich.
Name me schools in the FBS that loss‘s money in football?
UNO
The man that can’t stand Rhule is in favor of 48 team CFP, now that’s rich.
Name me schools in the FBS that loss‘s money in football?
UNO
Good thing teams like Appalachian State or James Madison (FCS at the time) or Old Dominion or Montana (FCS) or Jacksonville St or North Dakota St (FCS at the time) have zero chance of ever winning a game against a ranked Michigan, ranked Virginia Tech, ranked Washington, Florida State, or a ranked Iowa.I dislike the 24-team playoff. As much as the money-grubbing NCAA dreams of it - We will not have Cinderella beating blue bloods like we have had in NCAA Basketball Tournament. We will have Georgia destroying Navy and thinking "Sweet! I love the playoffs."
My second thought is "Am I watching a "playoff game" with North Texas, Navy, etc in it?" No.... But.... at the same time, I'm probably not watching their bowl game either. So, I can understand why they are doing this from that angle. The Bowls (especially mid and lower-tier) are dying.
An L ....and your ONLY L ......in WEEK 2.....should keep you out of the playoffs?
I agree with you. If the B1G/SEC are gonna find the fortitude to break away, that is the model they need to follow. B1G/SEC = AFC/NFC.
Going with more than 8 teams was a stupid move, and it keeps getting more and more stupid.
These were all low end schools (mostly FCS) who beat P4 teams, all but 1 FBS program were ranked at the time of the game. That's why I chose them for this illustration. If a low end school could beat these P4 programs that were ranked why couldn't we include conference winners like Tulane, Navy, JMU, North Texas, etc to play against an at-large bid like they already do? Those teams would (in theory) be much better than the FCS squads.
My guess would be that both the SEC and the B1G would expand to about 24 or 25 teams a piece before they break away.
Valid points. I think a lot of that is situational. Would I rather watch Alabama vs Georgia (example) for a 3rd time that season (regular season, SEC title, playoffs) or would I rather watch North Texas (CUSA or whatever conference champ) take on SEC champ? Is Alabama vs Georgia (or whatever same conference matchup multiple times in a year) a sweep? If its already 2-0 Alabama or 2-0 Georgia, I have no desire to see a 3rd game in this hypothetical. So give me North Texas in this scenario. If the season was split, then I might be more inclined to see Alabama vs Georgia Part 3. But for a team that's already lost twice to a team, give another deserving team a shot. If we're never going to give the lower conferences a fair shot and if winning your conference really doesn't mean anything, then we need to accelerate the B1G/SEC breakaway.
Yeah I think they would have to expand tremendously, and 64 makes an easy number. You'd only need 30 more teams. If you took 10 from the ACC, 10 from Big 12, and 10 more from everyone else including Notre Dame, you'd be at 64 and the rest of the FBS can be their own league.
In a grand shake up like that, we can be sure of one thing. There won’t be equal revenue sharing. And if they are setting up a new caste system, I am concerned what level Nebraska gets placed. We’ve already seen with the proposed private equity deal that they were not giving Nebraska as big a piece as Ohio State or USC.
Yeah there’s so many variables surrounding all of this. I really do wonder how far the B1G/SEC have taken this war game. This hypothetical breakaway could end up bad for a lot.
I don't think the B1G and SEC will get that big because at some point, there will be diminishing returns.
Maybe. The B1G/SEC won’t break away on their own as they stand, or they’d already have done it I believe, unless all that talk from them was just smoke. I don’t think they’ll be able to just poach a few teams because if you’re gonna take a good school like Texas Tech or Miami or FSU, you’re gonna have to take a scrub school like Kansas or Virginia (though FSU has been bad lately and Virginia has been good for once this century) if you’re gonna be bringing scrub schools already like Mississippi State, Northwestern, Purdue.
Honestly from the podcasts I have listened to, it appears that Virginia and North Carolina are the two main lynchpins in the next round of conference realignment. Whether they both go to the B1G or the SEC or 1 goes one way and the other goes a different way will likely determine where the rest of the dominoes fall.
If/When this SEC/B1G breakaway happens, AAU isn’t going to matter. Schools from states aren’t going to matter. They are going to pull all the biggest money draws they can to secure the strongest and most prosperous league they can. Excluding Texas Tech would be stupid of them.
Virginia and North Carolina are going to determine how the next wave of realignment goes. Some say Notre Dame, however in order to get Notre Dame to join a conference, the ACC would have to be significantly weakened. That's where North Carolina and Virginia come into play.
The AAU thing is sooooo overblown.
Even for the money I doubt TT wants any part of the SEC or BIG . They want to stay in power in the BIG 12 for the playoff chances Which would diminish greatly in either of the other two
If the B1G/SEC breakaway and form their own league, I don't see a world where the B12 and ACC don't beg to come along.
I agree, but when we're talking about the B1G/SEC breaking away from the NCAA and starting a new league/division, the dynamics that are in play now for conference realignment drastically change IMO.
