Going through Joel Klatt's 14-Team College Football Playoff | Changes NEEDED to the CFP Model?

[@freedomunderground81]

134 team playoff, nobody can cry then. 🤣

[@TheLEMRR]

I generally like Joel’s ideas. The only thing I’d like to see is Indianapolis added into the neutral site rotation as the travel cost/time for northern fans can get astronomical in a championship run.

[@magnus3rd]

Love this idea

[@ericpollitt7910]

Uniform scheduling will go a long ways

[@texasscifi3431]

With NIL. The big 12 and ACC will eventually get thay elite SEC and Big 10 talent whenever those awesome sophomores or juniors transfer to the big 12 and acc. No 4 auto bids to any conference.

[@greenwave819]

no atuobids/quotas at all, make it 16 and take the best 16

[@KB3TLE]

No more than 4 or 5 have a realistic chance to win it all any given year ? My goodness - 8 teams should be plenty every year for the foreseeable future ? Any more than that makes it all about the $ - for many unable to ever win it all !

[@greenwave819]

we'll see some teams make runs that really shouldn't...even this year ND wouldn't be there if they didn't have a very lucky path

[@greenwave819]

no autobids/quotas from conferences... that's what is messing this up as it is. 16 teams, take the 16 highest rated in FPI/SoR keep it simple

[@aureliusthomasel7229]

It should be the top 3 schools from each conference.so the conference will fight harder for the top 3 an the G5 winner an a FCS.school ..so all of college football can have a reason to play ..it sounds like a BCS playoff..

[@greenwave819]

no it shouldn't. no quotas no DEI, just take the 16 best teams

[@Cat5Cane-91]

We need to stop with this “4 auto bids” for the SEC and BIG 10. The conferences are not that far apart… Here is a better proposal, that allows it to be settled on the field! 1. Automatic Bids: 2 for each Power 4 conference (SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12). 2 for Group of 5 and Independents. This would lead to a total of 10 automatic bids, which is a good way to ensure a diverse representation across conferences. 2. Cross-Conference Matchups: The idea of having cross-conference matchups to determine the final 4 spots will allow it to be settled on the field. Here’s how that could work: 3rd seed of the ACC vs. 4th seed of the Big Ten 3rd seed of the SEC vs. 4th seed of the Big 12 3rd seed of the Big Ten vs. 4th seed of the SEC 3rd seed of the Big 12 vs. 4th seed of the ACC This provides the possibility of more exciting matchups, which could generate strong fan interest, and it allows for the determination of the best of the "next-tier" teams from each conference to compete for a spot in the final 4.

[@micahpg3407]

Keep it 12 teams. Reward the conference champs with *either* a home game or a bye (And do not punish teams for playing in their conference championship game). Keep the top 4 as the 4 that would have made the playoff in the 4-team era. We would have had: Oregon, Georgia, Notre Dame, Texas as the top 4 who get byes. No. 4 Texas awaits the winner of 5) Penn St. vs 12) SMU No. 3 Notre Dame awaits the winner of 6) Boise St. vs 11) Indiana No. 2. Georgia awaits the winner of 7) Arizona St. vs 10) Ohio St. No. 1 Oregon awaits the winner of 8) Clemson vs 9) Tennessee What do we think?

[@aaronlampkin284]

This would have been great for TV and casual fans.

[@pussnbootsxL]

keep conference title winners out unless they meet all criteria

[@kevinbeck7007]

Only one error...the committee's final ranking actually had Oregon, Georgia, Texas and Penn St. Texas and Penn St got bumped for the auto byes by AZ St and Boise, which is why Texas was the 5 seed and Penn St was the 6, and I believe Boise was actually ranked #9 by the committee despite being the 3 seed.

[@micahpg3407]

@ I was primarily going off my own power rating, mixed with rankings. Even after OSU lost to Michigan, I still had them power rated as a pick em against Oregon.

[@Thetangibletim]

5:20 you gotta listen to that whole thing before you get Joel on that’s just basic due diligence. I think it’s weird when host don’t read a their book before coming in but this was less than an hour. Totally get life is busy but you had several days to knock that out knowing you’d be discussing it.

[@BC-lp3sv]

The commercial breaks are brutal

[@freedomunderground81]

If college football is turned into the NFL it will lose most of it's appeal and fans.

[@drewp.weiner2473]

So tired of cfb being only about the playoff to everyone in media

[@Braeden.F]

Maybe just 12 teams and have 3 auto bids for SEC and B1G. Those conferences having double the other conferences just seems unrealistic and would never be agreed to. Or do 14 teams and have like 3 play-in games

[@ledaddymvpatty]

Dream Collab

[@ledaddymvpatty]

Nvm thought this was Jd

[@hunter24seven]

Just giving 4 seeds to the SEC and BIG10? They should have to earn it on the field! Give 2 autobids to each power 4 conference for the champion and runner up. Then on the same weekend as the championship games have interconference play-ins. 3 and 4 seeds from the power 4 play each other for up to 2 more spots in the playoff. SEC vs ACC, BIG10 vs BIG12 3vs4 seeds. That would leave 3 at large and 1 G5 bid.

[@edubwa7791]

DII and DIII have a normal playoff. Why is it so hard for DI? Makes zero sense

[@kevinbeck7007]

I love Klatt but I think he's over-thinking it and making it too convoluted. 14 team playoff, fine. Each conferences championship game participants get automatic bids to the playoff, this way each Power4 conference is guaranteed at least 2 teams. I think the ACC and in particular the Big12, should be grateful for that. That takes up 8 spots. One spot for the highest Group of 5 team makes 9 spots. Then you have 5 at-large bids left for whomever is deserving, whether that's ND or a buch of Big10/SEC teams, or whoever else. Boom. Done. Problem solved. I don't really know what they can do about the uneven schedules within the conferences because all the conferences are too big nowadays. Even if you play 9 conference games, you still won't be playing half of the conference. Even if you eliminated non-conference games and played all 12 conference games, it won't necessarily guarantee an accurate assessment of the best teams. Let's say in the Big10 for example....what if an Iowa played 12 conference games but managed to miss playing Ohio St, Penn St, Oregon and Michigan? It doesn't guarantee solving anything because every conference is too big . That being said, I'd love to see more Power4 vs Power4 non-conference games and eliminate the FCS opponents in non-conference games.

[@EagerShed-xp5zm]

Literally all conference winners should be in just like basketball and hell d3 has 30 teams make it its just better. Nobody cares about the sharmen ultra bowl and the viagra bowl

[@phmiraclecleanse]

Football playoffs don’t determine ‘best team.’ NBA is an example of best team playoff and championship. Best of 5,7. I like Klatts ideas to maximize the entertainment of the sport. Best point - reduction of neutral site games. Too little notice. Too much money to travel.

[@robertjulieannanalett1691]

8 TEAMS MAX anymore and you get joke games basically just to sell commercials.

[@AO_74]

All changes are good.. reseeding will be great.. too bad we have idiots running the sport!

[@dj.sobxrbe]

can we just do the top 14 teams 🤦‍♂️ idk why people have to complicate it. no byes no byeins just plays 1 plays 14. 2 plays 13 and so on. this way they’re will be more out of conference games which i think people want to see not some in conference bracket.

[@thomass.7988]

Impossible, with 14 teams you have to do byes 🤦‍♂️ 😭

[@richardporro6245]

Gonna need some kind of bye with 14 teams