my preferred CFP format

[pseudonym]

• 24-team CFP
• 9 conference champion auto-bids
• 15 at-large bids
• seeded by Strength of Record*
• first two rounds on campus (top 16 seeds get exactly one home game)
• third and fourth rounds: Peach, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Rose, and Sugar (rotate)
• National Championship Game: rotate among premier football venues

*-Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would have team's record or better, given the schedule.

Example based on current SOR and projected conference champions:

 

[patdog]

8 teams. 5 bids to highest ranked conference champions. Projected 1st round matchups:

9-2 Arizona St at 11-0 Oregon
10-1 Boise at 10-1 Ohio St
10-1 Miami at 10-1 Texas
10-1 Notre Dame at 10-1 Penn St.

Of course Georgia or SMU could get in by winning their conference championship. Everyone else, sorry.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

8 teams. 5 bids to highest ranked conference champions. Projected 1st round matchups:

9-2 Arizona St at 11-0 Oregon
10-1 Boise at 10-1 Ohio St
10-1 Miami at 10-1 Texas
10-1 Notre Dame at 10-1 Penn St.

Of course Georgia or SMU could get in by winning their conference championship. Everyone else, sorry.

That’s ridiculous. You’re screwing the good conferences.

Conference championships need to go way down in value.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

• 24-team CFP
• 9 conference champion auto-bids
• 15 at-large bids
• seeded by Strength of Record*
• first two rounds on campus (top 16 seeds get exactly one home game)
• third and fourth rounds: Peach, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Rose, and Sugar (rotate)
• National Championship Game: rotate among premier football venues

*-Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would have team's record or better, given the schedule.

Example based on current SOR and projected conference champions:
View attachment 701233

I like it alright. I’d make them all bowl games though.

Plus, 24 more closely resembles the amount of teams that make the playoff in all other levels of college ball.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

I’m fine with 12. The only thing I would change is conference championships get you a bid into the playoff and not a bye. The best 4 teams that are decided on by the committee get byes. The rest of the field is laid out like the selection committee does for March madness. Higher seeded teams get home games in the first round.

 

[patdog]

I’m fine with 12. The only thing I would change is conference championships get you a bid into the playoff and not a bye. The best 4 teams that are decided on by the committee get byes. The rest of the field is laid out like the selection committee does for March madness. Higher seeded teams get home games in the first round.

Byes or guaranteed seeds for conference champions has got to go. It messes up the brackets.

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Byes or guaranteed seeds for conference champions has got to go. It messes up the brackets.

Agreed. Just treat conference champions like they are in basketball. It gets you in the playoff and that’s it.

 

[pseudonym]

I think a lot of different stakeholders would see my format as an improvement. The exception might be the Big Ten because the current format benefits that top heavy league.

stakeholder	current 12-team CFP*	proposed 24-team CFP**
SEC	3 bids 1 home game 1 bye	8 bids 6 home games 3 byes
Big Ten	4 bids 2 home games 1 bye	4 bids 4 home games 4 byes
ACC	2 bids 0 home games 1 bye	3 bids 2 home games 1 bye
Big 12	1 bid 0 home games 0 byes	3 bids 2 home games 0 byes
G5	1 bid 0 home games 1 bye	5 bids 1 home game 0 byes

*-based on current CFP format/rankings
**-based on my format/current SOR rankings

 

[patdog]

I think a lot of different stakeholders would see my format as an improvement. The exception might be the Big Ten because the current format benefits that top heavy league.

stakeholder	current 12-team CFP*	proposed 24-team CFP**
SEC	3 bids 1 home game 1 bye	8 bids 6 home games 3 byes
Big Ten	4 bids 2 home games 1 bye	4 bids 4 home games 4 byes
ACC	2 bids 0 home games 1 bye	3 bids 2 home games 1 bye
Big 12	1 bid 0 home games 0 byes	3 bids 2 home games 0 byes
G5	1 bid 0 home games 1 bye	5 bids 1 home game 0 byes

*-based on current CFP format/rankings
**-based on my format/current SOR rankings

I think you just got Sankey on board:

stakeholder	current 12-team CFP*	proposed 24-team CFP**
SEC	3 bids 1 home game 1 bye	8 bids 6 home games 3 byes.

 

[Negative Waves]

I propose 11 game regular season with no conference championship games. The top 16 teams get thrown into group play, 4 pods with 4 teams each similar to the World Cup. These games would be played on campus. Top 8 teams out of the group play would then go to the single elimination bracket. These games would be played at the group of 6 bowls.

 

[Coast_Dawg]

Just make it 16 and make it the top 16 teams. Play every game as a bowl game.

 

[Perd Hapley]

16 teams. No byes. Requirement that all at-large bids for the P4 conferences must go to teams that play at least 11 games against P4 opponents…..each league and team can chop that up however they see fit at their own discretion. You don’t have 11 P4 teams on the schedule? Well, better win the conference title!

First 2 rounds on campus. Top 4 seeds host both games, high seed hosts if a Top 4 goes down in the first round. Same number of rounds as the current format, so no extra weeks of play.

Beyond that, no change at all from the existing rankings, seeding system, or game locations EXCEPT the Top 5 conference champs are guaranteed bids, but not byes.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

• 24-team CFP
• 9 conference champion auto-bids
• 15 at-large bids
• seeded by Strength of Record*
• first two rounds on campus (top 16 seeds get exactly one home game)
• third and fourth rounds: Peach, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Rose, and Sugar (rotate)
• National Championship Game: rotate among premier football venues

*-Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would have team's record or better, given the schedule.

Example based on current SOR and projected conference champions:
View attachment 701233

I'm old, slow and have inhaled enough JP-4 for many lifetimes, where are you getting 9 conference champions? The P4 and whatever G5 team makes it, right?

 

[GloryDawg]

I say go back to the BCS format but let the top eight teams in regardless of conference or conference championship status. More often than not the BCS got it right. The committee with the rules for the four top conference champions gets an automatic bid is BS. I want the best eight teams and there will be a 9-3 SEC team that could win the play off that will be left out for Arizona State.

 

[pseudonym]

I'm old, slow and have inhaled enough JP-4 for many lifetimes, where are you getting 9 conference champions? The P4 and whatever G5 team makes it, right?

There are 9 conferences. As you point, the Power 4 + the Group of 5.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

There are 9 conferences. As you point, the Power 4 + the Group of 5.

Well that's stupid. No one will give the G5 more than one or entrants.

The G5 should come up with their playoff/champion, it would sell on TV.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

Well that's stupid. No one will give the G5 more than one or entrants.

The G5 should come up with their playoff/champion, it would sell on TV.

In every other sport, every conference is included, non-controversially.

Just pretend like it's a 20-team playoff with 5 autobids.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

• 24-team CFP
• 9 conference champion auto-bids
• 15 at-large bids
• seeded by Strength of Record*
• first two rounds on campus (top 16 seeds get exactly one home game)
• third and fourth rounds: Peach, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Rose, and Sugar (rotate)
• National Championship Game: rotate among premier football venues

*-Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would have team's record or better, given the schedule.

Example based on current SOR and projected conference champions:
View attachment 701233

This would be great, but I would also let the round of 8 be at home sites too. Keep neutral sites only for the final 4 and the championship.

Also, no bowls, conference championships, or any other type of postseason beyond the 24-team playoffs. In exchange however, expand the regular season to 13 (or 14) games and let the bowls become regular season neutral site kickoff games. The conferences can make up the money lost on pointless conference championship games (that most teams don't even want to play in) by having more conference games. Maybe require every conference to have a 10-game schedule.

 

[Perd Hapley]

8 teams. 5 bids to highest ranked conference champions. Projected 1st round matchups:

9-2 Arizona St at 11-0 Oregon
10-1 Boise at 10-1 Ohio St
10-1 Miami at 10-1 Texas
10-1 Notre Dame at 10-1 Penn St.

Of course Georgia or SMU could get in by winning their conference championship. Everyone else, sorry.

Another option…..8 team playoff. No autobids to anyone. No guarantee to the G5. First round on campus. That’s it.

Your playoff based on current rankings:

(1) Oregon hosts (8) Tennessee
(4) Penn State hosts (5) Notre Dame

(2) Ohio State hosts (7) Georgia
(3) Texas hosts (6) Miami

4 awesome matchups there….all have cross-sectional appeal. Crown jewel is probably Georgia-Ohio State.

Now lets look at the next 6 teams in the rankings:

(9) SMU - boring, and no chance of win it
(10) Indiana - boring, and no chance to win it
(11) Boise State - boring, and no chance
(12) Clemson - name brand but no chance

8 teams is plenty.

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

Am I right I assuming that in the first round of the current format there's nothing preventing two teams from having a rematch from earlier in the season?

 

[Lettuce]

• 24-team CFP
• 9 conference champion auto-bids
• 15 at-large bids
• seeded by Strength of Record*
• first two rounds on campus (top 16 seeds get exactly one home game)
• third and fourth rounds: Peach, Fiesta, Orange, Cotton, Rose, and Sugar (rotate)
• National Championship Game: rotate among premier football venues

*-Reflects chance that an average Top 25 team would have team's record or better, given the schedule.

Example based on current SOR and projected conference champions:
View attachment 701233

12 team playoff will be the same 8 teams…with two of the remaining 4 teams making it every other year.

Everyone else in the country is fighting for two spots…..and I bet one of those is group of 5.

So 70 or so teams fighting for 1 spot.

 

[BulldogBlitz]

I prefer it in pdf format. Easier to read

 

[kired]

I used to think 8 was perfect, and I still t don’t think a champion would ever come from outside the top 8. But this 12 team playoff creates a lot of mid-to-late season intrigue. Who’s going to be the last 4 in, who’s going to get a bye?

I have no desire to see it expanded further.

 

[mcdawg22]

Man ya’ll really want OM to make the playoffs don’t you. I’m sorry but I don’t want it to expand much more. The devastating upsets is what I love about the regular season. The OM and Bama loss last weekend would not have brought me as much joy if they still were probably gonna make the playoffs.

 

[patdog]

Another option…..8 team playoff. No autobids to anyone. No guarantee to the G5. First round on campus. That’s it.

Your playoff based on current rankings:

(1) Oregon hosts (8) Tennessee
(4) Penn State hosts (5) Notre Dame

(2) Ohio State hosts (7) Georgia
(3) Texas hosts (6) Miami

4 awesome matchups there….all have cross-sectional appeal. Crown jewel is probably Georgia-Ohio State.

Now lets look at the next 6 teams in the rankings:

(9) SMU - boring, and no chance of win it
(10) Indiana - boring, and no chance to win it
(11) Boise State - boring, and no chance
(12) Clemson - name brand but no chance

8 teams is plenty.

Honestly , I like that better too. Just not sure how realistic it is to have 7 of 8 from the 2 best conferences.

 

[patdog]

Am I right I assuming that in the first round of the current format there's nothing preventing two teams from having a rematch from earlier in the season?

Don’t think anything explicitly prevents it, but I bet the committee tweaks the seedlings to avoid it in most cases.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

In every other sport, every conference is included, non-controversially.

Just pretend like it's a 20-team playoff with 5 autobids.

CFB isn't every other sport. You want Ohio, Bowling Green or La Tech in the playoffs? They are leading their conferences.

 

[QuaoarsKing]

CFB isn't every other sport. You want Ohio, Bowling Green or La Tech in the playoffs? They are leading their conferences.

In a 24 team model? Sure.

 

[paindonthurt17]

8 teams. 5 bids to highest ranked conference champions. Projected 1st round matchups:

9-2 Arizona St at 11-0 Oregon
10-1 Boise at 10-1 Ohio St
10-1 Miami at 10-1 Texas
10-1 Notre Dame at 10-1 Penn St.

Of course Georgia or SMU could get in by winning their conference championship. Everyone else, sorry.

8 teams
The top 8 in the CFP rankings but the rankings should have some sort of computer analysis

maybe 50% of the committee and 50% of the computer system

 

[CDawg08]

I wish they would do the FCS format. Top 24 teams get in 1st round bye to top 8 teams. Play it off with highest ranked teams every round getting the home games. Championship Game at neutral site goodbye bowls.