80 different schools would have made it at least once.
If a 24-Team CFP had existed from the very beginning (2014)
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I hate the espn pundits that complain about “only the top 4 or so schools have a chance to win it all and therefore we should not be having this many teams in the playoff.”
Besides just spouting off what big money wants them to say, they are also completely missing the point that this type of wide, national involvement is exactly what makes college football so dynamic and successful. Start to limit it to just the “haves vs have nots” and the national appeal to every single fanbase will start to fade. Need to expand to at least 16 if not 24 and fix NIL/transfers rules to keep competitive and national balance, imo!
Besides just spouting off what big money wants them to say, they are also completely missing the point that this type of wide, national involvement is exactly what makes college football so dynamic and successful. Start to limit it to just the “haves vs have nots” and the national appeal to every single fanbase will start to fade. Need to expand to at least 16 if not 24 and fix NIL/transfers rules to keep competitive and national balance, imo!
If only. You have to wonder how far some of the teams would've gone. Also, which years would have gone? 2015, 19, 20, 21, 23, and 25?
I think teams like 15, 21, 23 would've been a first round out. But 18, 20, add 25 would've made it at least one or two games.
I think teams like 15, 21, 23 would've been a first round out. But 18, 20, add 25 would've made it at least one or two games.
I really hope that they do not go to 24 teams!?! 16 is plenty... But in reality the current system is the best.
The NCAA basketball tournament is a joke at the 94 or however many teams they have it up to now. F'n joke.
The NCAA basketball tournament is a joke at the 94 or however many teams they have it up to now. F'n joke.
What is hilarious unless my eyes deceived me. Seeing what big 10 schools didn’t make it like Rutgers and Maryland. Looks like you can add Nebraska to the list.
College football is not like college basketball where a top 20 team could knock off number 1 and maybe make a run. Nobody, at the end of the season, thinks #12 could knock of #1, let alone #24. There's never an argument for who is the best beyond 4-5 teams
The 10 seed and last P4 team in just went to the national championship and gave the #1 team all they could handle just this season.
It needs to be 24 teams, period. That would put D1 in the same ball park with every other division of college football in terms of the percentage of teams who make the football playoffs.
In 1980 there were 15 major bowls, 30 teams. Last year there were 41 bowls, 82 teams. So if there are still sponsors and TV for bowl games, go ahead, but the playoffs should be 24 teams, and at least the first two rounds should be on campus.
Every other division of college football would disagree: FCS, with 128 teams, has 24 teams in its playoffs. Division two has a 32-team playoff. Division three has 40 teams in the playoffs. That's about 18-20 percent of teams in each of those divisions. Major college football has 138 teams, so 24 teams in the playoffs would be in line with every other division of college football, including FCS. Those are the facts.
All matters about when you get hot and injuries
Just thinking about this, but very very few DIII teams receive national attention. Most know a handful of schools like Mount Union, North Central, and Wartburg. But there are many schools out there you and I have never heard of, or at least not much about. If one of them has a hot season nobody else knows about, they deserve consideration like being one of forty teams.
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In your analogy, a #24 knocking off a #1 would be the equivalent to a 16 seed beating a 1 seed in the ncaa basketball tourney. I actually think there’s a better chance of a football 24 beating a 1 seed than a 16 seed beating a 1 seed in March madness. It’s only happened 2 out of 164 times. I bet a football upset would happen more often.
I’m not actually making the argument that I think a 24 would win be try often at all. More so I’m saying if people like March madness set up (of 64/68 teams - not talking expansion), then I don’t see why you wouldn’t like a 24 team football playoff.