12-team College Football Playoff

Next year's MLK Day is on Monday the 16th. There is some really tricky timing. Playing the NCG on the Monday after WC weekend tends to bury the buildup to the game. Almost wonder if you move it out to a Thursday night?
It is amazing how quickly this came together. Were the school presidents who suddenly found themselves on the outside of realignment suddenly more flexible in their thinking?

 

ND will be fine with trading the chance to host a game for getting in nearly every year.

 

They’ll be pretty close getting in every year anyway, whether as a bye or WC. They have more of a shot winning the ACC then winning the Big10 on average.

this is possibly a 16-18 game season for the 12 teams. The conference championship game becomes unreasonable.

 

And I'm sure most of the major conferences would rather opt to scrub a conference game (even a home one) over a home game vs. an FCS school.

 

It's going to come. I don't see how it doesn't, not if you give the other conferences an excuse to downgrade your candidates.

 

Nine SEC games will come in conjunction with Texas/OU entering as a way to give ESPN an inventory boost and bring the contract payment closer in line to what the Big 10 has set as the benchmark.

 

So in for December Madness

 

Sorta. I’m not going in person, or watching on TV, to see a game with a team not in the top 300.