Posted on 02/18/2025 6:04:28 AM PST by Red Badger
Last spring, during intense and, at times, heated negotiations over the future of the College Football Playoff, leaders of the Big Ten and SEC threatened to create their own postseason system if they were not granted a majority of CFP revenue and full authority over the playoff format.
In the end, executives of the 10 FBS leagues and Notre Dame signed a memorandum of understanding handing control over to college football’s two richest conferences.
Soon, they are expected to exercise that control.
Within the SEC and Big Ten, momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16 teams, assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league — as many as four each for themselves — and finalize a scheduling arrangement together that may fetch millions in additional revenue from TV partners, sources told Yahoo Sports.
The playoff format change would clear the way for SEC administrators to, finally, make the long-discussed move to play nine regular-season conference games and would trigger, perhaps, all four power leagues to overhaul their conference championship weekend.
These ideas and concepts, previously reported by Yahoo Sports as possibilities, are now serious agenda items within the highest governing bodies of the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and ACC, according to officials from each of those leagues. The 11 members of the CFP Management Committee — the 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director — were contacted for this story, many of them confirming the existence of these potential ideas but declining specific comment on the matter.
Final decisions are expected in the coming weeks.
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Ping!.................
Excellent.
That being said I’m a “footballed” out.
Until September 😉
It will eventually go to a 134 team playoff, because...well...because everybody gets a trophy.
I would personally like no more than a four team playoff. Of course, I’m an old fogey who remembers when professional baseball consisted of two leagues and no divisions. The regular season games actually meant more.
It will be designed so as to create the largest profit.
They should start in July................😉
I enjoyed watching the college football playoffs this season more than I thought I would. I think they should air the final championship game on regular tv, but this will never happen. You shouldn’t have to pay to view the big game. I guess the revenue helps pay for football shaped confetti marked with the year, though. That must be some important stuff.
If they did, that’s when the teams in the South would want to play the Northern teams on their fields.
Yes, and they have to buy two different batches of confetti, one for each teams colors, so half of it doesn’t get used and just gets thrown in the trash!..............
Simple:
Four P4 conferences each with two divisions.
Each conference holds a championship game between the two division champions. (Two divisions, four conferences, sixteen teams total)
Winners of the conference championship advance to the four team playoff.
This isn’t complicated.
They should throw it in the aid packages where the t-shirts and hats for the team that didn’t win land. Give those third world people a party with their t-shirts. I’m always surprised there isn’t a market for those shirts.
The ones the players put on at the end of the game go over their pads, too. Ginormous! It would be muumuu sized for most of us.
They’ve got non-pad ones, you see them in the post game interviews. But from a collector stand point I would expect the losing team shirts would be pretty valuable. But I’ve never heard of a market for them. Guess I don’t know collectibles.
College football has become a form of systemic institutionalized corruption.
The Big 10 (and to a lesser extent, the SEC) have ruined college football.
Nothing says Big 10 like 18 schools in your conference.
Money grubbing in the name of amateur sports.
Who wants a t-shirt that says *we played in the big game, but we lost!*
I think they can give them to charities who might clothe people in third world counties. Definitely a first world problem.
Not collectible, IMHO.
From a collectors standpoint it would be rarity. I would think it would be similar to the collectibility of misstrikes. But, again, I’ve never collected anything for profit, so clearly I’m missing something.
I haven’t either. We have two collections in our house, and I haven’t pursued mine in a long time. I have a bunch of old old Little Golden Books. Some of the earliest ones came with dust jackets. My husband has vinyl. They were all bought because we enjoyed them, not because we want to profit off of them. It’s like a baseball card collection. You look at them from time to time, remember some good stuff, and then put them back away. At least the vinyl is something we enjoy most every evening.
Will the NFL prospects play?
No, no, no. They should REDUCE the size down to 8 teams. None of the 9-12 teams this year won a single game. (I threw away my bracket, but I think that’s correct.)
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