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Dan wetzel
During the era of college football’s bowl championship series, an extended, opposed to the game to expand alone, the playoffs are the state president of the then-Ohio. Gordon can be summarized in a colorful quotes by Gordon ji.
“They will take out a playoff system with my cold, dead hands,” G said in 2007.
We are happy to tell that college does football, in fact, there is a playoff, GE is still very alive. The 81 -year -old retired this week after the second term of the University of West Virginia.
What Is Dead and buried, however, there is a staunch resistance of college football that is to increase its postsen field. After ignoring the decades of complaints and to claim additional revenue was promised that only two teams were more than enough, the plan to go up to 16 from 12 participants was running even before the inauguration of the previous season.
Once a frequent sports now moves at light speed, the implications of the future are damaged.
Fire. Ready. Objective.
So perhaps the best part of the current news is that two ruling parties of college football-SEC and Big Ten-cannot agree on how the new 16-team sector will be chosen. It has put a break on playoff expansion.
Maybe, it can be just, it means that there will be no expansion by 2026, as earlier planned, and the college football can allow the 12-team model to cook a little to accurately assess what changes-if there is any change-even if there is a need.
“We have a 12-team playoffs, five conference champions,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sanki said this week. “If we cannot agree then it can live.”
Good. What is the crowd after all?
In the 2025 season, five conferences will be played with a 12-team format characterized by champions champions and seven-big spots. Last year’s clunk is required that the top four seeds can only go for conference champs – raising the Bois State and Arizona State and unbalanced to the region.
It was progressed on the real world experience alone. It should be educative.
The SEC wants a 16-team model, but currently, automated dialects going into the champion in the so-called group of ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, SEC and 6.
Big Ten says it will not refund such proposal until SEC agrees to play nine conference games (above its current eight). Instead, it wants a 16-team system that gives four automatic bids to Big Ten and Sec, ACC and Big 12, two, one in a group of 6 and then three large spots.
It has been described as “4-4-2–2-1-3” because college athletic leaders like ridiculous parlance as they love money.
While ACC, Big 12 and others have offered opinions-most of the SEC, siding-devout, is resting with two large-dog conferences of the decision game.
Right now, neither side is shaking. A compromise can still be done, of course. The alleged time limit to set the 2026 system is 30 November. And Sanki really says that he likes the nine-game SEC schedule, even if his coaches oppose it.
However, the probability of status quo stands for a while.
What Big Ten has proposed is a dramatic change for a game that has been bombed with dramatic changes – realization of the conference, transfer portal, nil, revenue sharing, etc.
The league conference wants to give a stage to many “play-in” games on the championship weekend. The top two teams in the league will meet for the league title (as is currently the case), but the third and fourth place teams will play the fifth and sixth -ranked teams to determine other automated dialects.
Extend it to all conferences and you have a 26-team college football playoffs (with 22 teams in a play-in position). This will dramatically change the way the game works – for example, devaluating stakes for the nonconference game. And some average teams will essentially get a playoff bid-in the case of Ten, last year the sixth seed was an Iowa team that ended 8–5.
Each conference will have a more high-value list to sell broadcasting partners, but it is not some heavy wind. Similarly, four and first round playoff games will need to find television slots and relevance.
Is anyone sure that it is necessary? Do we need 16, walk alone with multibitbids?
In the 12-Team format, the first round was not particularly competitive-with a 19.3-point average margin. It is like the first round of NFL playoffs, which is mostly designed to ensure that no true contenders are left.
Perhaps there was an outsider last year. And perhaps future games will be close. Or perhaps they will be even more omitted. Wouldn’t it be prudent to find out?
While Alabama had complaints about the selection committee choosing SMU and/or Indiana, it was not very modest. The argument does not matter how big the field is. In addition, Crimson Tide lost to two 6-6 teams last year. Extension means that there may be a cruise in a team with a uniform resume.
Is that a good thing?
Whatever decisions, it is being made with very few real-world data-Pr or Con. To allow some 12-team regions to play, reference and potentially providing unexpected results, will definitely not hurt.
You do not need to be around 2007 in favor of giving this boil and leaping towards another round of expansion.
