3 years, 9 months ago

College Football Playoff expansion proposal: What’s right, what’s wrong and who’d benefit most from the 12-team format?

The College Football Playoff’s four-person working group submitted a proposal Thursday that would expand the current FBS postseason format from four to 12 teams. It helps Notre Dame in almost every way, even if there’s a wonky drawback to reserving the four byes for conference champions, even if the Irish finish No. Dochterman : I don’t think it ruins the regular season because the BCS and original College Football Playoff already tinkered with it to make that a debatable point. If you put the first two rounds on campuses, then there are a handful of teams that were good enough to reach the College Football Playoff yet won’t get a bowl-game experience.

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1 month, 1 week ago

SEC and Big 10 are prepared to push for changes to CFP seeding in 2025

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS — The Big Ten and Southeastern Conference will push for changes in the way College Football Playoff teams are seeded next season to coincide more with how teams are ranked by the CFP selection committee, commissioners for both leagues said on Wednesday. “I’m prepared to vote for seeding change,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said. “But it has to …

2 months, 1 week ago

Any College Football Playoff tweaks for 2025 won’t be hashed out until later this year

Associated Press

ATLANTA — Any adjustments to the College Football Playoff for next season, including a potential tweak in the way byes are awarded, would have to take place later this year, probably in the spring, the leaders of the playoff said Sunday. Conference commissioners and school presidents who operate the playoff met on the eve of the Ohio State-Notre Dame title …

2 months, 1 week ago

CFP officials task conference commissioners with reviewing 12-team Playoff format, weighing future changes

New York Times

By Stewart Mandel, Chris Vannini and Ralph D. Russo ATLANTA — The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff have charged conference commissioners with reviewing the first year of the 12-team format and determining any potential format changes going forward. “We’re going to turn to the Management Committee and our staff to come up with any, or keep it …

2 months, 1 week ago

Notre Dame AD says he thinks there’s a chance for seeding tweak in College Football Playoff

Associated Press

ATLANTA — Notre Dame’s athletic director said “I think there’s a chance” for tweaks to the way the College Football Playoff awards byes next year — an issue that will be discussed this weekend but that would need unanimous approval from the 10 conferences and the Fighting Irish. Speaking at media day Saturday in advance of the national title game, …

2 months, 1 week ago

The 12-team Playoff got too much right in Year 1 to change the format already

New York Times

One day before this year’s national championship game, the 10 conference commissioners and 10 presidents — along with Notre Dame’s leaders — who control the College Football Playoff will meet in Atlanta to discuss how it went and how to potentially change the format for 2025 or 2026. Ohio State and Notre Dame will meet in a national championship game …

What Everyone Is Missing About the College Football Playoff

Slate

The first 12-team iteration of the College Football Playoff had four chances to produce a competitive first-round game. ProFootballTalk opined, “A 12-team college football playoff sounds like a great idea until it’s all lesser teams going on the road to play better teams in late December and getting their asses kicked.” These people are all making different points but missing …

3 months, 1 week ago

12-team college football playoff arrives after 100 years, a few billion dollars and many detours

Associated Press

It took more than 100 years, a few billion dollars and the cold, hard realization that you can’t fight progress forever. The first 12-team College Football Playoff kicks off Friday and Saturday with four first-round games on campuses steeped in gridiron tradition: Texas, Penn State, Notre Dame and Ohio State. A deal struck decades ago as part of the NFL’s …

3 months, 1 week ago

12-team college football playoff arrives after 100 years, a few billion dollars and many detours

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The first 12-team College Football Playoff kicks off …

3 months, 1 week ago

College Football Playoff guide for bandwagon fans: Reasons to root for (and against) every team

New York Times

We survived the wackiness of the BCS era and the computer formulas. Ohio State Why you should get on board: You’re a Michigan fan who wants Ohio State to win a few Playoff games — but not the national championship — so Ryan Day can stay in Columbus for a few more years. Notre Dame Why you should get on …

3 months, 2 weeks ago

2024 College Football Playoff guide: What to know about the new 12-team format, at-large bids

New York Times

College football entered a new era Sunday with the unveiling of the first 12-team Playoff bracket. For most of its century-plus existence, college football had a “mythical national champion.” The sport’s season champion was determined after teams played in bowl games by various polls and rankings, which, of course, led to significant debate. The four quarterfinal games and both semifinals …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Four reasons Indiana is the 12-team College Football Playoff’s most fascinating contender

New York Times

College Football Playoff expansion was made for teams such as Indiana. Austin Mock’s model has Indiana’s chances to make the Playoff at 85 percent even though its chances of winning the Big Ten are only 10 percent. At 11-1 with a loss to the Buckeyes — for the sake of this exercise, let’s make the result of the game something …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Will the first College Football Playoff rankings of 12-team era favor Big Ten, SEC?

New York Times

Tuesday night’s College Football Playoff Top 25 rankings will surely be the most picked-apart first installment of a season since the CFP debuted in 2014. It’s also the committee’s first set of rankings in the new era of superconferences, where the SEC and Big Ten are trying to position themselves as superior to everyone else. “You can come from a …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Predicting the first 12-team College Football Playoff selection committee rankings

New York Times

The first College Football Playoff rankings will be revealed Tuesday night, and once again I’ll be using my projections model to try to predict how the selection committee will rank the teams each week. Here’s what I expect Tuesday’s rankings to be: Next five: Missouri, South Carolina, UNLV, Arizona State, Tulane Biggest question: What to do with Notre Dame? There …

4 months, 3 weeks ago

How will College Football Playoff home games work? Tickets, traditions and other questions

New York Times

IRVING, Texas — Construction is underway several floors up in a nondescript office building just off the highway. The big rocks, the big areas to run a football game, we’re covered.” With the first set of in-season CFP rankings coming out on Tuesday, the years of planning will move closer to reality for the four schools eventually selected to host, …

4 months, 4 weeks ago

College football is heading for a conference tiebreaker nightmare. Whose fault will it be?

New York Times

When college sports’ most recent round of football-driven conference realignment began more than three years ago, it came with a promise of more blockbuster games, higher TV ratings and new, fresh rivalries. Especially because those conference championships determine which four teams earn first-round byes in the 12-team College Football Playoff, this situation doesn’t feel tenable in the long term. Too …

5 months, 1 week ago

College football midseason bowl projections: How new CFP format impacts rest of bowl season

New York Times

The expanded College Football Playoff will give this sport something that previously was unrivaled by the other sport: a true Selection Sunday. Texas Clemson-Alabama winner 8:45 p.m. ESPN Orange Jan. 9 Miami, Fla. Quarterfinal winner Quarterfinal winner 7:30 p.m. ESPN Cotton Jan. 10 Arlington, Texas Quarterfinal winner Quarterfinal winner 7:30 p.m. ESPN Championship Jan. 20 Atlanta Semifinal winner Semifinal winner …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

SEC, Big Ten leaders mulling future of fast-changing college sports

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Among the talking points when an advisory group …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Who will make an expanded College Football Playoff? A potential bracket, using the Top 25 as a guide

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! — Unpredictability lingered into 2022, when five teams that would have gone on to make a 12-team playoff started the season unranked by AP, including national runner-up TCU. — Overall, 29 teams from 2014-23 that started the season unranked by AP would have made a 12-team …

7 months, 2 weeks ago

College Football Playoff 2024 sleepers: 13 unranked teams who can crash the 12-team field

New York Times

College football’s postseason enters a new era in 2024 with the arrival of the 12-team College Football Playoff, featuring automatic bids for the five top-ranked conference champions plus seven at-large selections. — Kyle Tucker The Cyclones return nine starters on both offense and defense, including breakout quarterback Rocco Becht, his top four receivers, the defense’s top five tacklers and leading …

1 year ago

Analysis: Big Ten and SEC power play undermines credibility of playoff, marginalizes ACC and Big 12

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! There will be at least two 12-team playoffs, this season and next, but the Power Five is now down to four, dominated by a Big Two: The Southeastern Conference and Big Ten have decided to throw their weight around to protect their own interests with little …

1 year, 1 month ago

How the 12-team College Football Playoff will work

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The 12-team College Football Playoff is 10 months away from kicking off and the format for it has finally been locked in. University presidents who make up the CFP Board of Managers unanimously approved one last tweak to increase the number of at-large bids from six …

1 year, 1 month ago

College Football Playoff approves 5+7 format and reduces spots for conference champions

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff beginning next season will comprise five conference champions and seven at-large selections after the university presidents who oversee the CFP voted unanimously Tuesday to tweak the format. The original plan for the 12-team format was to have the …

1 year, 1 month ago

College Football Playoff approves 12-team format, reduces spots for conference champs

LA Times

The field for the 12-team College Football Playoff beginning next season will comprise five conference champions and seven at-large selections after the university presidents who oversee the CFP voted unanimously Tuesday to tweak the format. The original plan for the 12-team format was to have the six highest-ranked conference champions, with the top four receiving first-round byes, and six at-large …

1 year, 2 months ago

College Football Playoff delays tweaking 12-team format to decrease spots reserved for league champs

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The College Football Playoff delayed reducing the number of spots reserved for conference champions from six to five in the upcoming 12-team format on Monday, though the change is expected to be in place next season. For now, the playoff format for the next two years …

1 year, 3 months ago

Analysis: With expansion coming, good riddance to the 4-team playoff after unprecedented snub of FSU

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! It’s just going to be better,” The final version of the four-team playoff produced a truly unsatisfying outcome Sunday when unbeaten Florida State was left out because, essentially, its starting quarterback got hurt. But the CFP devalued the rest of the postseason: Highly ranked teams left …

1 year, 3 months ago

Column: College football delivers the perfect fiasco to cap the four-team playoff era

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference got it all wrong when he sent out a defiant statement Sunday claiming “college football deserved better.” Actually, college football got just what it deserved. The 12-team playoff will finally arrive with the 2024 season, but that’s too late …

1 year, 3 months ago

What the College Football Playoff got wrong: Leaving out Florida State

New York Times

Next year, all this College Football Playoff arguing will be moot with the CFP expanding to 12 teams. There wasn’t a second-best team in the Big 12 this year, but Oklahoma State beat Oklahoma, the team Texas stumbled against and, as expected, Texas hammered the Cowboys Saturday. That wasn’t going to help Texas’ cause, but do we just forget that …

1 year, 4 months ago

College Football Playoff close to moving to 5+7 model for 12-team format starting in 2024: Source

New York Times

The Athletic has live coverage of the College Football Playoff rankings release. The College Football Playoff is close to adjusting its 12-team format next year and moving to a 5+7 model, with five automatic bids for conference champions, instead of the original 6+6. The CFP management committee, made up of the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack …

1 year, 6 months ago

CFP puts off decisions on format tweaks with Pac-12 still in limbo, hears from potential TV partners

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The number of spots reserved for conference champions when the College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams next year remained open for discussion Wednesday as administrators who manage the postseason wrapped up meetings that mostly focused on potential television partners. College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill …

1 year, 6 months ago

Analysis: Conference realignment has mangled the college sports map, but to what benefit?

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! Beyond dollars moving from one bank account to another it’s hard to see the overall benefit, but the most disruptive round of conference realignment at the highest level of college sports appears to be almost over — at least for the near future. We’ll probably have …

1 year, 6 months ago

Realignment prompts fresh look at the number of automatic bids in 12-team College Football Playoff

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! IRVING, Texas — The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff met Wednesday for the first time since a wave of realignment tore apart the Pac-12, raising the possibility that the number of automatic bids in the 12-team postseason format to be implemented next year …

1 year, 7 months ago

Column: College football’s in chaos. It’ll still be fun to watch

LA Times

USC cornerback Olaijah Griffin, left, breaks up a pass intended for Stanford tight end Colby Parkinson in 2019. The colleges’ decisions are about money, and you can just say it the way Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders said it : “Everybody’s chasing the bag.” And as someone who grew up in a Big Ten Conference state, I wish the families of …

1 year, 7 months ago

Greg Sankey calls for CFP format to be reconsidered after realignment: ‘Circumstances have changed’

New York Times

Greg Sankey called for the 12-team College Football Playoff format, debuting next season, to be reconsidered after the recent wave of conference realignment, the SEC commissioner said Tuesday in his first time speaking publicly since the Pac-12’s near dissolution. The net of that is circumstances have changed, and I think it’s wise for us to take a step back and …

1 year, 8 months ago

Predicting conference realignment’s unpredictable future: 5 scenarios for 2033 and beyond

New York Times

Four years ago, The Athletic admirably — and, as it turns out, foolishly — attempted to predict the future of college sports when my colleague Stewart Mandel took a stab at what the conference landscape would look like five or 10 years into the future. “But I also know that the SEC can’t sit still and allow the Big Ten …

1 year, 8 months ago

College football conference realignment timeline: 124 years of drama, money and bitterness

New York Times

The Western Conference, known today as the Big Ten, was formed in 1896 by the universities of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, Wisconsin and Chicago. GO DEEPER Journey back to Sewanee, a founding SEC member that has no regrets Dec. 12, 1948: Nearly a decade after original member Chicago dropped football, the Western Conference becomes the Big Ten again by …

2 years, 6 months ago

Analysis: Will a bigger College Football Playoff be better?

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! While enthusiastically announcing plans to expand the College Football Playoff, those in charge of the postseason system downplayed the revenue windfall that will come with tripling the number of participants and declined to speculate about whether a new format will tap the brakes on conference realignment. …

2 years, 6 months ago

College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by ’26 season

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! After 14 1/2 months of haggling over details and questioning motivations, a plan to expand the College Football Playoff to 12 teams was finally approved Friday, setting the stage for a multibillion-dollar tournament as soon as the 2024 season. “This was a very historic day for …

2 years, 6 months ago

College Football Playoff will expand from four to 12 teams by 2026

LA Times

The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff voted Friday to expand the postseason model for determining a national champion from four to 12 teams no later than the 2026 season. If the new format can be implemented before the current 12-year contract with ESPN expires after the 2025 season, the conferences could make an additional $450 million over …

2 years, 6 months ago

College Football Playoff to expand to 12 teams by 2026

New York Times

Follow The Athletic’s live coverage of Week 1 of the college football season. The College Football Playoff will expand to 12 teams by 2026, the CFP Board of Managers announced Friday. 𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: College Football Playoff Board of Managers Votes to Expand Playoff to 12 Teams Details on today's meeting » https://t.co/x77b7YFPbt#CFBPlayoff 🏈🏆 pic.twitter.com/M6LbtdGaEj — College Football Playoff September 2, 2022 …

3 years, 1 month ago

After early CFP expansion fails, job only gets tougher

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! “Seems like everyone says they’re committed to expand the CFP, but it’s hard to believe that because we can’t expand the CFP,” Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill told The AP. Relatively new commissioners in the Big Ten, Pac-12 and ACC, already leery of a process that …

3 years, 1 month ago

College Football Playoff to remain at four teams after expansion talks fail

LA Times

Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett celebrates with the College Football Playoff national championship trophy after the Bulldogs’ win over Alabama in January. The CFP management committee, composed of 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director, met by video conference earlier this week, executive director Bill Hancock said Friday in a statement. A few days after the meetings in Indianapolis, Atlantic …

3 years, 3 months ago

Big 12’s Bowlsby: CFP expansion for 2024 ‘in some jeopardy’

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! ARLINGTON, Texas — Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says expanding the College Football Playoff as soon as the 2024 season is “in some jeopardy” if an agreement on a new format cannot be reached soon. Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff said Friday night before his league’s title …

3 years, 4 months ago

NCAA rewrites constitution, sets stage for transformation

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! The next phase of the NCAA’s transformation figures to be more difficult: a reshaping of Division I that will tackle revenue distribution, how rules are made and enforced, access to the most-high profile and lucrative NCAA events — such as the men’s basketball tournament — and …

3 years, 4 months ago

College Football Playoff expansion talks to continue Dec. 1

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 college football poll is back every week throughout the season! DALLAS — The administrators in charge of the College Football Playoff plan to meet again on Dec. 1 to continue expansion talks, which need to reach a consensus by the end of the year if a new postseason format is to be implemented for the 2024 …

3 years, 6 months ago

The 4 factors of College Football Playoff expansion that make hitting pause the most likely next step

New York Times

In June, a four-person working group within the College Football Playoff Management Committee dramatically unveiled a 12-team Playoff proposal. Bowlsby even went out of his way to give “particular credit” to Sankey when they announced the 12-team proposal “because the SEC is going to do just fine whether we stay at four or go to eight or move to some …

3 years, 8 months ago

Why the SEC’s realignment maneuvers could lead others to pump the brakes on College Football Playoff expansion

New York Times

One month ago, college football fans across the country were buzzing about the proposed 12-team College Football Playoff, which could begin as soon as 2023. It has become clear, both to other college sports leaders and to anyone following the timeline of events closely, that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey was preparing to poach the Big 12’s crown jewel programs even …

3 years, 8 months ago

Commentary: Surprise! Pac-12 can be a winner in this round of conference realignment

LA Times

Oklahoma wide receiver Drake Stoops scores the winning touchdown in overtime as Texas defensive back Chris Brown tries to tackle him in Dallas on Oct. 10, 2020. At the very least, they have not denied the report from the Houston Chronicle that took a blow torch to what was supposed to be a routine session of SEC media day banter …

3 years, 9 months ago

College Football Playoff takes another step toward 12-team expansion

LA Times

The College Football Playoff took another significant step toward expanding from four teams to 12 Tuesday as the CFP board of managers authorized a “summer review phase that will engage other important voices in this matter,” including bowl partners such as the Rose Bowl and broadcast partner ESPN. “The four-team playoff has been a great success and I’m confident it …

3 years, 9 months ago

How would the 12-team College Football Playoff have changed the last 10 years? Ripples from Alabama to Coastal Carolina

New York Times

Welcome to the new era of the College Football Playoff. 8 Cincinnati The beauty of going with the top six conference champs over an automatic bids model is that every so often, we’ll see years like this where a fantastic Group of 5 conference champ — Coastal Carolina — gets into the field ahead of a Power 5 champ that …

3 years, 9 months ago

College Football Playoff considering expansion to 12 teams

Associated Press

There was a time not so long ago, 2012 to be exact, when the big news in college football was conference commissioners simply using the word playoff when talking about the future of the sports’ postseason format. The College Football Playoff announced Thursday it will consider expanding from four to 12 teams to settle the championship, with six spots reserved …

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