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

RedDenver said:
The committee ranks the conference champs that get a bye, which is still a committee determining who gets the byes. You can say it's not a big deal. I strongly disagree.
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:yeah

RedDenver said:
This is where I disagree. No team deserves a bye based on their conference.

There's no unbiased way to assign byes based on each team's performance (in college football at least); therefore, there should be no byes. 8 or 16 team playoffs accomplish this.
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Well said 

 
Huskers93-97 said:
It’s really pretty easy though. There are only 4 top tier conferences left. Whoever wins those 4 deserves a bye. Do you see a scenario where a mountain west school will deserve a bye over the big 10 champ? Sec champ? Acc champ? Big 12 champ? I can’t 

now if the pac 12 still existed I could see argument 
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Wrong, it is not easy, the committee does make mistakes and there is human error and bias to decide college football playoffs and rankings.

Three times in only 9 seasons total, there have been 2 teams in the playoffs representing the same conference.  There has been plenty of years where there has been long discussions of who deserves to be playing instead of "insert name of another team equally deserving"

Thought we wanted to get away from that by creating something amazing with unity, and without bias and human intervention/decision making + computers crunching stats and strange numbers.

 
The College Football Playoff selection committee will no longer use conference championships as one of its tiebreakers because the new 12-team format guarantees bids for the five highest-ranked conference winners, the CFP announced Thursday.

The change in protocol, which was approved by the FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua, was implemented at this week's annual meeting of selection committee members in Laguna Niguel, California.

When the commissioners decided upon the 12-team format for this fall, they also agreed to place an emphasis on the importance of winning a conference title. Because it is embedded into the model, that eliminated any need to use a conference title as a tiebreaker when comparing similar teams.

The four highest-ranked conference champions will receive a first-round bye. The other tiebreakers remain and include strength of schedule, head-to-head results, and comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory).
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https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/40872739/college-football-playoff-use-conference-titles-tiebreakers

Also: Mike Riley is on the playoff committee this year, and is recused from voting for Oregon State, but apparently not for Nebraska.

 
I would guess that most of the time the 5 and 6 spots will be the losers of the SEC and B1G championship games and they will both end up with decent paths.  I could see them slotting the 5/6 spot just based on who the 11 seed is to try and avoid a conference game as much as they say they won't be doing that.

 
BigRedBuster said:
I'm not a fan of this, even if it helps Nebraska.
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I’m not either, and I don’t see as it’s needed. Unless, maybe, if it’s in exchange for agreeing to have good games in Aug. and Sept. In other words, they’re willing to have tougher schedules if they’re guaranteed the spots. 

Personally, I hate the idea of 9 conf games and 3 cupcakes. It makes the first 3 weeks a lot less fun. 

But if it isn’t about that, if we have 16 teams, these 2 conferences will probably have 4 teams each 19 times out of 20 anyway. I don’t know what other teams they think would be picked. The Big 12/ACC/New PAC-12, even if they are ever good, will take a long time to gain the reputation of being good. Last I checked there is only 1 team not in the B1G/SEC in the top 10. 

 
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