NCAA GDT: The 2024-25 EXPANDED College Football Playoff: the New Revolution

[John Price]

RIP SEC

 

[Reality Check]

Arizona State: worse team
Boise State: worse team
Oregon: okay you got me there
Georgia: backup QB

The four teams losing after their bye was a strange coincidence and that's it. Please do not change things yet.

If they want to change something, reduce the teams from 12 to eight. But no one is turning down TV revenue and, if anything, they'll just increase it to 16 teams.

These games have been awful overall as well.

Biggest takeaway is how NIL and the transfer portal has reduced the SEC's advantage of paying players under the table. Allegedly.

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

Arizona State: worse team
Boise State: worse team
Oregon: okay you got me there
Georgia: backup QB

The four teams losing after their bye was a strange coincidence and that's it. Please do not change things yet.

The thing that needs to be changed is that those worse teams shouldn't have had a BYE in the first place.

 

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[GKJ]

That’s good numbers for the Sugar Bowl to beat the Fiesta Bowl

 

[Unholy Diver]

That’s good numbers for the Sugar Bowl to beat the Fiesta Bowl

seems that some of the faculty might not have tuned in

 

[GKJ]

seems that some of the faculty might not have tuned in

Well no they needed to be at the game

 

[Unholy Diver]

Well no they needed to be at the game

what about the branch campuses?

 

[GKJ]

what about the branch campuses?

The folks at Penn State Abington are busy doordashing

 

[daver]

The thing that needs to be changed is that those worse teams shouldn't have had a BYE in the first place.

This is the easiest fix.

Reduce to 8 and you still have some questionable teams in the playoffs if the five conf. champs make it automatically.

Expand to 16 and you get even more lopsided games.

 

[Jovavic]

This is the easiest fix.

Reduce to 8 and you still have some questionable teams in the playoffs if the five conf. champs make it automatically.

Expand to 16 and you get even more lopsided games.

Makes too much sense therefore it won't happen

 

[daver]

Makes too much sense therefore it won't happen

Don't let pesky things like common sense and long term thinking get in the way of unbridled capitalism.

 

[John Price]

There is no difference now between a WWE telecast and a ESPN bowl game telecast. Announcers are terrible, show bias constantly and are not objective, prop up their own properties they own. I just mute ESPN now

 

[MaxV]

I’m in the minority probably, but I like the current format.

I think we had a weird season with several top tier programs going through a rebuilding year.

Its not unreasonable to expect LSU, Alabama, Michigan, Clemson, all the top Florida teams, USC and others to be improved next season.

 

[MaxV]

Even good, historically competitive second tier teams like Wisconsin, UCLA, Washington, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, etc underperformed.

 

[GKJ]

Even good, historically competitive second tier teams like Wisconsin, UCLA, Washington, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, etc underperformed.

Everyone can’t be a running at their best, but with the bloated conferences, they’re also not going to be playing each other often enough.

 

[MaxV]

Everyone can’t be a running at their best, but with the bloated conferences, they’re also not going to be playing each other often enough.

Sure, but my point is that whenever top tier teams have a rebuilding season, the second tier teams step up.

This season everyone has been a disappointment.

Even the 4 teams that are left, none of them had a dominant season.

 

[Tony Romo]

Even good, historically competitive second tier teams like Wisconsin, UCLA, Washington, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, etc underperformed.

I hate Oklahoma with a burning passion, but calling them a second tier program is nasty work. They are a blue blood/borderline blue blood.

 

[stealth1]

There is no difference now between a WWE telecast and a ESPN bowl game telecast. Announcers are terrible, show bias constantly and are not objective, prop up their own properties they own. I just mute ESPN now

I agree. You can say the same for Fox too. They are all biased towards the top schools. Watching a game earlier this season between Marshall and OSU, the disappointment from the announcers when Marshall scored first was disgusting. For 2 networks to supposed National broadcasts they are both massive homers.

 

[John Price]

RIP SEC (1950-2025)

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

This is the easiest fix.

Reduce to 8 and you still have some questionable teams in the playoffs if the five conf. champs make it automatically.

Expand to 16 and you get even more lopsided games.

I'm not ESPN, I don't think that Alabama or Ole Miss or South Carolina should have been in over those teams (and SMU and Indiana), just they should have been playing the first weekend, most likely on the road, and Texas and Penn St. should've had the BYEs.

#5 ND vs. #12 (16) Clemson
#6 tOSU vs. #11 Arz St.
#7 Tenn vs. #10 SMU
#8 Indiana vs. #9 Boise

And then definitely re-seed after the first round. I mean you have to beat good teams eventually, but Oregon went undefeated and got a tougher draw then Penn St. Regular season success isn't that meaningful at the moment.

Giving them an automatic bid for winning their conference is fine, but a BYE is a little much.

I'm also a proponent of less playoff teams and records should matter more than divisions/conferences, in all sports. The CFP should be 8, but that toothpaste is out of the tube and 16 is going to happen soon and they'll never subtract. I want the best teams in the regular season to have the advantages in the playoffs. Divisions should be used for scheduling and that's it. Those used to be a regional thing to limit travel and such and that made sense 40+ years ago, but not anymore. I mean we have Stanford in the same conference as Miami and Washington in the same one with Rutgers.

I'm not saying you need to go back to the BCS or a European soccer style no playoffs, but our regular seasons are becoming less and less meaningful in the name of parity and greed. Probably one of the reasons NBA ratings are down.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

I hate Oklahoma with a burning passion, but calling them a second tier program is nasty work. They are a blue blood/borderline blue blood.

100%, no borderline about it.

 

[Nogatco Rd]

I agree. You can say the same for Fox too. They are all biased towards the top schools. Watching a game earlier this season between Marshall and OSU, the disappointment from the announcers when Marshall scored first was disgusting. For 2 networks to supposed National broadcasts they are both massive homers.

Yeah watching the Skycast with no commentary makes you realize how 99% of commentators add nothing to the game.

Compared to the NFL, CFB is such a sonically rich experience that just listening to the crowd, the bands, and the stadium PA is all the soundtrack you need for a big game.

 

[GKJ]

I agree. You can say the same for Fox too. They are all biased towards the top schools. Watching a game earlier this season between Marshall and OSU, the disappointment from the announcers when Marshall scored first was disgusting. For 2 networks to supposed National broadcasts they are both massive homers.

In some ways like that, first off, they don’t know much about Marshall except what they go over in production. But they also know their audience are predominantly Ohio State fans.

 

[stealth1]

In some ways like that, first off, they don’t know much about Marshall except what they go over in production. But they also know their audience are predominantly Ohio State fans.

I can get there with you on that. The other one is watching the Texas Arizona State game. It felt like every time Arizona State scored the broadcasters felt disappointed.

You're supposed to a national broadcaster not a Texas homer. That's one thing the NHL has gotten right with their national broadcasts. They are for the most part pretty even with the call