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Of any of that, I think the most realistic near-term change will be to kill the CCGs. It won't take more than 1 or 2 instances of an SEC or Big10 team getting left out because of it before it's killed. If Bama and Texas get left out because of 3 losses (regardless if it's valid or not) you will see the SEC raise holy hell and they may opt to just cancel the CCG.

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CCG's bring in too much revenue to get rid of. What will probably happen is the BIG and SEC will get a guaranteed number of slots in the playoffs.

He who has the gold…

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Well, at least penalize schools for tampering with coaches during the season and penalize coaches for recruiting for a school they may be leaving for while at their current school.

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And call it the Schloss Rule

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This is a personal issue of mine, but this rumor exists because "Brauny" said that Schlossnagle was tampering, that there were pictures of texts to prove it, and that those pictures would come out. If you're going to make this accusation and be taken seriously as a sports writer, you'd sure as hell better back it up.

He didn't. The pictures never came out, he never issued a retraction, and TexAgs posters continue to post the accusation as though it were fact.

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Doesn't change that Schloss is a POS.

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Who wins a lot…

Why not have 1 BIG playoff just like they do at Wimbledon?

Top 128 teams. Lose and GTFO.

Skimmed the thread...

1) Move spring signing day to August. If you want to graduate high school early and enroll early, choose early.
2) Tighten the portal. You get one free transfer. You get an additional free one IF your coach (head, your coordinator, or your position) moves. Other transfers you sit a year.

That would solve it.

Did you cry like this for Florida State two years ago when Texas got in over them????

Of course not.

I think college football is just fine and a team losing to a 4 win team and not making the playoffs this year is of very little concern.

Why expand to only 16? 24 should be the minimum. Playoff games on campus are the greatest thing to come out of the expanded playoffs. Let's do more of that and less crappy overpriced bowl games in some crappy NFL domed stadium.

King of the Dairy Queen said:

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• Consolidate the entire CFB world into two conferences of 16 teams. Each conference will have 4 divisions of 4 teams.
• Following a 17-game regular season, 14 teams make the playoffs (seven from each conference) and compete in a single-elimination tournament to determine the conference champions, who then play in the National Championship.
• Move games that dont really matter, because half the teams make the playoffs, to Sunday so people have something to do after church.
• Make it completely corporate and sterile, only maximizing revenue for media carriers. The players wont even care if they win because all teams will essentially all just be affiliates of the same organization that distributes media revenue.
• Winning the national title means you get a feather in your cap, but will be dwarfed in importance by your media revenue dividend.

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Some people need help in math.

16 playoffs teams is silly.

4 playoff teams
4 conferences: SEC, Big10, ACC, Big12
Each play a conference championship game.
Win your conference, play the other conference winners in a 4 team playoff.

If you're not the best in your conference you can't claim you're the best in the country.

How do you account for the fact that the SEC CCG loser may be better than the ACC CCG winner? You still have a playoff that may not have all the best teams in it.

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How do you account for the fact that the SEC CCG loser may be better than the ACC CCG winner? You still have a playoff that may not have all the best teams in it.

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You answered your question within your question.

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SEC CCG loser

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This loser, having already lost the CCG, has shown they are not the best in the country. In this format the 4 conference championship games are affectively the first round of the playoffs.

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Why not have 1 BIG playoff just like they do at Wimbledon?

Top 128 teams. Lose and GTFO.

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Makes the season too long and player injuries jump significantly.

Ohio St didn't even play in the CCG last year and proved they were the best team in the playoffs.

Can we just stick to the same rules and criteria for more than one season? As Committee members rotate on and off, the rules change with little transparency.

So we don't care about the playoffs actually being the top teams. Then we should move to the ACC asap

The very first thing that needs to happen is to leave the NCAA behind for the top 32-50 schools.

Then, you have those 32-50 schools set up in 4 regional conferences with divisions.

Make the big 4 CCGs be bowls (i.e., Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, Sugar, Peach, Orange) and semifinal games.

Final game is at some current giant stadium like it is now.

Profit

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By far, College football is my favorite sport. Nothing matches the passion, the fan bases, the traditions, and the history. But the sport needs help. With the whole Kiffin situation and everything that has happened around it, pretending things are fine is not an option. Something has to give.

The playoff was a huge step in the right direction. It fixed the ridiculous idea that one small mistake could ruin an entire season. Expanding the playoff was another improvement. Teams with two losses now have a real path. That makes the sport better. And for anyone still pushing Texas as a playoff team, come on. Three losses and you are out. The idea that Texas deserves a spot is just something for sports talk shows to yell about. There is zero chance they get in, and everyone knows it.

Now for the part that matters. College football needs real reform. Here are my first five changes.

1. Move the schedule back so the season ends around January 1 before the transfer portal opens. The timing right now is crazy. Players are making life altering decisions while games are still going on. It makes no sense.

2. Fix intra conference scheduling. Some of these setups are a joke, especially in the ACC. You cannot take a conference seriously when its members barely play each other.

3. Expand the playoff to 16 teams.

4. Spots 12 through 16 should earn their way in through a play in round. It keeps urgency in the regular season and rewards teams that peak late.

5. Get rid of conference championship games. They serve no purpose anymore. Just crown champions based on the regular season. We do not need an extra weekend of nonsense deciding what the standings already told us.

That is my plan, and the play in portion of the playoff would be insanely popular.

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What extra teams do you think would get into the playoffs if it were expanded this year?

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So we don't care about the playoffs actually being the top teams. Then we should move to the ACC asap

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Go independent. Schedule the bottom 2-3 teams from each conference, go no worse than 10-2 year after year...in reality go 11-1 or 12-0. Guaranteed playoffs every year.

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The very first thing that needs to happen is to leave the NCAA behind for the top 32-50 schools.

Then, you have those 32-50 schools set up in 4 regional conferences with divisions.

Make the big 4 CCGs be bowls (i.e., Rose, Fiesta, Cotton, Sugar, Peach, Orange) and semifinal games.

Final game is at some current giant stadium like it is now.

Profit

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Completely implode the system. Set up 2 divisions with 5 regions. Conference title is round 1 of the playoffs, so top 2 teams make it. End of each season, bottom 2 in each region falls to division 2, while the top 2 in division 2 in each region jump up to division 1. Problem is the lawsuits once the cut is made.