Or...a 16 team. Which it will eventually become...it just takes a long time for stupidity to wear off. I could see 12 teams...any less than that, and you still have the same issue--teams that really should have been in, not being in. While you would still have arguments, just like you do in the 64 team basketball tournament, they'd be mostly meaningless. All of the good teams would be in a bigger playoff. Currently, that's not true. Nor would it be true for 8 or 6.
12 won't work because you can't give a bye week. That's just wrong. 8 or 16. But none of this will happen until the conferences totally realign, which may not ever happen.
8 would probably get us a very long way towards stability. The key will be if there are autobids and if so who gets them. The politics and plumbing of college football are so exhaustively stupid. I really wish we would go back to the defacto regional championships that were the big bowl games. There's no sense in trying to put together a playoff or national championship if your path there is so ****ing arbitrary and convoluted. As you said, the coming conference cataclysm (effectively the FBS fracturing in two) could solve all of this outright, but that could be a very long ways off. We just don't know. Frustrating.
Yall thinking too hard. 8 is 100% fine. 6 even is fine. Are there years where we really think more than 6 teams should be in the mix? C'monnn. Be honest with yourselves.
This is why worrying about playoff rankings in early November is meaningless. I think outside of the TCU/Baylor fiasco year, there hasn't been much controversy on the top 4 teams by the end of the year.
11/16/2021 25. Mississippi State 24. Houston 23. Utah 22. UTSA 21. Arkansas 20. NC State 19. San Diego State 18. Pitt 17. Iowa 16. Texas A&M 15. Wisconsin 14. BYU 13. Oklahoma 12. Ole Miss 11. Baylor 10. Wake Forest 9. Oklahoma State 8. Notre Dame 7. Michigan State 6. Michigan 5. Cincinnati 4. Ohio State 3. Oregon 2. Alabama 1. Georgia
Just the same general overall impressions. I generally dislike the idea that folks in suits on committees carry more weight than the scoreboard. But that's college football, and it's been trending worse in that direction for a while now.
11/23/2021 25. Arkansas 24. Houston 23. Clemson 22. UTSA 21. San Diego State 20. NC State 19. Utah 18. Wake Forest 17. Pitt 16. Iowa 15. Texas A&M 14. Wisconsin 13. BYU 12. Michigan State 11. Oregon 10. Oklahoma 9. Ole Miss 8. Baylor 7. Oklahoma State 6. Notre Dame 5. Michigan 4. Cincinnati 3. Alabama 2. Ohio State 1. Georgia
Notre Dame vs. Baylor ATM vs Okie State UH vs Oklahoma None of this will happen, but that's what I want to see after thinking about it for 27 seconds
11/30/2021 25. Texas A&M 24. Louisiana 23. Kentucky 22. Arkansas 21. Houston 20. Clemson 19. San Diego State 18. NC State 17. Utah 16. Wake Forest 15. Pitt 14. Oklahoma 13. Iowa 12. BYU 11. Michigan State 10. Oregon 9. Baylor 8. Ole Miss 7. Ohio State 6. Notre Dame 5. Oklahoma State 4. Cincinnati 3. Alabama 2. Michigan 1. Georgia
I don't think its that far off. It's already happening, with SEC expansion...and they are looking at expanding more. At which time they would constitute over half of all NCAA FB revenue, and could basically tell the NCAA bugger off. Other conferences would then be forced to also merge to remain competetive at all.
Go Cincy, go OkieSt (sorry Coogs and Bears, yall cool but...), go Georgia in blowout fashion, go Michigan. We need new blood in the CFP Georgia Michigan Cincy OkieSt
This is the ideal outcome, but I think that the committee would keep Cincinnati at 4 over a one-loss Oklahoma State. If they have to admit a G5 team, they're going to make sure that they get absolutely pummeled against the 1-seed.
This is alright with me. But I'm really curious what happens to all this if UH wins. No real clear #4 in that scenario.
Of course, everything I want will probably go wrong and the Committee will find a way to give us a playoff of Alabama, Notre Dame, Georgia and Ohio State
