Is the NCAA football tournament really expanding to 16 teams? 🤮

[CatManTrue]

Talk about a baseless money grab.

There are rarely 6 true contenders for a national championship, and 12 teams is already too many.

This isn’t basketball, and like most fans I’m continuing to lose interest in college football in general.

CFP 5+11 model draws interest from SEC coaches

In a pivot from the push for automatic qualifiers in the next iteration of the College Football Playoff, the SEC on Tuesday took a heightened interest in a 16-team model that would include the five highest-ranked conference champions and 11 at-large bids.

www.espn.com

 

[CMcCat]

College football is becoming the UFL.

 

[Figrating]

Just take the top 16 teams as approved by the majority of coaches. Doesn't have to be any more complicated than that. No auto admissions.

 

[Sheffielder]

College football is becoming the UFL.

More like CFB is becoming like every pro sport, which is not a compliment.

In every pro sport, playoffs welcome too many teams because more teams = more money, regardless if the lowest performers "should" be in the mix or not. CFB is the only sport I've really cared about as an adult, so it's totally alienating to think that 8-4 teams will now be in the mix for a national title. So much for "this is why the regular season means so much!" And now with conference champs not getting the top four seeds, I think we'll start seeing more strategy with programs benching their starters for CCGs when they know they won't fall out of the playoffs.

Also...if CFB were becoming more like the UFL, then the players would be making a hell of a lot less...

 

[phatcat]

Is the NCAA football tournament really expanding to 16 teams? 🤮

Only temporarily. Then it will expand to 24. And so on.

 

[CoralSpringsCat]

This is awesome. 4 AQ’s from the B1G?

Sign. Me. Up.

This gives NU the best chance of making the playoff by far. No reason we can’t sneak into that 4th slot every now and then.

Get it done Sankey!

 

[CatManTrue]

This is awesome. 4 AQ’s from the B1G?

Sign. Me. Up.

This gives NU the best chance of making the playoff by far. No reason we can’t sneak into that 4th slot every now and then.

Get it done Sankey!

Disagree. Watching lower seed get obliterated by the powers of the world in the first round- especially given the Big Ten rarely has more than 2 national title contenders - will continue the decline of the game.

College football is now a purely money driven shell of itself. How long before the UFL starts signing high school graduates to 3 year contracts?