12-team College Football Playoff

Which is more proof that more than one or two teams have a legitimate shot at winning the CFP, and that expanding the CFP field is a good idea.

 

The 1968 Buffalo Bills were 1-12-1. Their lone win was over the Super Bowl-champion Jets. Shit happens.

 

The NFL has a salary cap. There is no way Alabama and Pitt are spending, in many different ways, the same.

I love an expanded playoff, but I don’t think it will work like March Madness where upsets will be all over the place. The top four teams will grease the treads of their tanks with the guts of the lower seeds for a few recruiting seasons. Before you really only have a legit chance to be in the playoffs unless you go to about 10-12 colleges. Now, athletes can go to Pitt, Purdue, UCLA, Virginia Tech, NC State and others and honestly think there is a chance for them to be in the final 12 or 16.

 

You are probably right. But we'll never know until we see, and I want to see.

 

If those middle-four seeds don't win their first-round games consistently, that's when there will be problems. A 4-vs.-12 quarterfinal would suck rocks.

 

As usual, this is 20 years too late, before the rich got insanely rich. How fun would it have been to see some of those WVU or Boise State teams in a real playoff?

 

And after enough years pass the wealth will begin to spread, but it will take time.

 

Pitt/WVU was a great game and those two teams have zero chance of being in the playoffs this year. Could they be #12 in the country? Sure. And these games will start to be a lot more fun.

It just sucks watching a team like Oregon get curb stomped. It was nice, though, to see Notre Dame give Ohio State game.

 

It's possible, though, not probable, that NIL money will impact the CFP. Not in the near future probably, but still. Not everybody grows up wanting to play for Alabama or Georgia or even Ohio State. But if you can score your money while you're in college, and some of that desperation falls off your shoulders, you might be more willing to consider your home team or the team you loved as a child. Maybe not. But it could filter down.

 

Not sure anyone out here expected anything different. Georgia is the defending NC, playing at home. Oregon lost a ton of talent, starting a new (albeit experienced) QB, with Doogie Houser making his head-coaching debut.

Didn't foresee 49-3, but no way in heck was Oregon gonna win that game. No way.

I'd be worried about their backup QB. Five-star recruit who barely got on the field last year, and didn't play a snap yesterday. I'd be surprised if he's not looking around this morning, even tho he's said he's not in the past after not getting PT.

They'll smoke Eastern Washington next week but then they get BYU.

 

you say that, but Michigan went from unranked to the playoff. No one went into last year thinking they’d win more than 8 games.