12-Team Playoff On the Way; 14-Team to Follow

chamrocck said:
I somewhat like 8. The top 4 get home games. Then final 4 in neutral sites. I don’t like teams getting a bye.
 

Take a team like KState. They win their conference championship today. They then would have to win 4 more games to win it all?  Round of 12, round of 8, final 4, final 2.  Are the conference championships going away? That seems like an insane gauntlet to run.
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I think the conference championship games should be eliminated once the 12 team playoff starts. Honestly, the matchups will be meaningless for the playoff, and it will free up a weekend for games to be played on campus sites. 

 
ColoradoHusk said:
I think the conference championship games should be eliminated once the 12 team playoff starts. Honestly, the matchups will be meaningless for the playoff, and it will free up a weekend for games to be played on campus sites. 
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I agree. Conference champion can just be determined by standings. I suppose that kind of sucks when the #1 and #2 have never played each other though.

 
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ColoradoHusk said:
I think the conference championship games should be eliminated once the 12 team playoff starts. Honestly, the matchups will be meaningless for the playoff, and it will free up a weekend for games to be played on campus sites. 
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I would tend to agree with you.  But I assume there is too much money in them for them to go away.  Plus, as conferences expand there will be more of a chance for two teams to tie and haven't played each other.

 
ColoradoHusk said:
Agree, that’s what 9 conference games are there for.  Also, they should mandate SEC and ACC have 9 conference games. 
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Funny how the arguments that it's SOOOOO much easier to make the playoffs from an 8-game conference have pretty much ceased since Clemson took a step back.

Likely that three out of four this year are from 9-game conferences.

 
So a 12-team playoff this year would be:

#1 - Georgia vs winner of #9 Kansas State @ #8 Tennessee

#2 - Michigan vs winner of @10 USC @ #7 Alabama

#3 - Clemson vs winner of #11 Penn State @ #6 Ohio State

#4 - Utah vs winner of #12 Tulane @ #5 TCU

 
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Mavric said:
So a 12-team playoff this year would be:

#1 - Georgia vs winner of #9 Kansas State @ #8 Tennessee

#2 - Michigan vs winner of @10 USC @ #7 Alabama

#3 - Clemson vs winner of #11 Penn State @ #6 Ohio State

#4 - Utah vs winner of #12 Tulane @ #5 TCU
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I’m not sure as I haven’t read about it but I think they should re-seed after first round so #1 still gets to play lowest remaining seed. 

 
Mavric said:
So a 12-team playoff this year would be:

#1 - Georgia vs winner of #9 Kansas State @ #8 Tennessee

#2 - Michigan vs winner of @10 USC @ #7 Alabama

#3 - Clemson vs winner of #11 Penn State @ #6 Ohio State

#4 - Utah vs winner of #12 Tulane @ #5 TCU
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I would rather have this seeded according to the current CFP standings.

 
nic said:
I would rather have this seeded according to the current CFP standings.
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Yeah, I don't think when they were dreaming it up that there would be that much of a gap between the top two conference champions and the next two - although it did close down somewhat in the final rankings.

My preference has always been eight teams - and no more than two per conference - which would have been:

#1 Georgia vs #8 Kansas State

#2 Michigan vs #7 Utah

#3 TCU vs #6 Clemson

#4 Ohio State vs #5 Alabama

 
BigRedBuster said:
I would prefer just 8 teams.  Not sure of the reasoning to think they need to go to 12.
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