CFB playoff format next year

It's about damn time.

It has rematch, upset, & Cinderella run possibilities 😍 pic.twitter.com/4Bfi1agnVE

— Martyn Pape (@Qurome_) November 29, 2023

I've never understood why they have not done that sooner, especially when they have all those weeks where there is no football before the bowl games.  Once a team loses a game their season is pretty much over, this will make it more interesting down the stretch.  I have always thought they should have their championship game on the Sunday before the Super Bowl that way they would have their own weekend. 

I miss the days when the press just voted on a champion, and then the Alabama legislature passed a bill declaring Alabama to be the champions.

That is a graph of awesome... and then there's poor Tulane going into Oregon LOL.  The Green Wave would think they were going through Katrina all over again  :p

This format is going to be a home run with viewers. You're going to see matchups that you normally wouldn't get to see. Underdogs will rise up. Lots of drama and hype which will make this highly successful.

This is going to be a lot of fun. I don't think it will ever overtake the NFL, but college football is the 2nd most popular sport in America, ahead of the NBA, MLB, etc. I really think over time this will lift college football into a legit competition with the NFL. 

With half the pac12 moving to the big 10,  this will still likely leave some fans upset,  but its a damn good start 30 years to late.

https://theathletic.com/5090955/2023/11/29/michigan-ohio-state-tv-ratings/

Washington punched their ticket last night, good for them. I don't see Alabama beating Georgia. FSU hasn't been incredibly dominate, but should beat Louisville. 

@"StickyBun" said: Washington punched their ticket last night, good for them. I don't see Alabama beating Georgia. FSU hasn't been incredibly dominate, but should beat Louisville. 

@"JimmyinSD" said:

@"StickyBun" said: Washington punched their ticket last night, good for them. I don't see Alabama beating Georgia. FSU hasn't been incredibly dominate, but should beat Louisville. 

This starts after next season though right,  this year is still old format of 4 teams?

We have to get rid of conference championships. With the BIG10 doing away with divisions, the possibility of Michigan/Ohio State having to play back to back games, and then possibly meeting again in the CFB is just stupid. 

FCS college football playoffs have it right.  Says me, who is going to the #2 seed Montana Griz second round playoff game this evening under the lights vs. Delaware.  College football playoffs are da bomb.  A different kind of excitement than regular season.  When they expanded to a 24 team field, it really opened it up for a lot of smaller schools.  Even so, Delaware enrollment is 24,000 vs. Montana at 11,000.  But I'll be there with 27,000 of my closest friends tonight.

So more to the point of good this format will be next year: this year somebody is going to be pissed. Either Georgia, Alabama, FSU.....someone will have a legit bitch. No more after this season.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39033441/michigan-washington-texas-florida-state-top-4-teams-ap-poll

Looks like Michigan-Wash-Texas-FSU will be the 4 if the committee follows suit in an hour.

@"StickyBun" said: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39033441/michigan-washington-texas-florida-state-top-4-teams-ap-poll

Looks like Michigan-Wash-Texas-FSU will be the 4 if the committee follows suit in an hour.

That list of 4 does nothing for me as a fan. Glad this is getting dumped. 

I think the committee got this right, the 4 best teams are the final four 

@"StickyBun" said: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39033441/michigan-washington-texas-florida-state-top-4-teams-ap-poll

Looks like Michigan-Wash-Texas-FSU will be the 4 if the committee follows suit in an hour.

 I think I saw Tx playing earlier this season and that DL of theirs was reminiscent of the Eagles. 

Whoa....Not a happy day in Tallahassee

Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama were selected to the College Football Playoff on Sunday, making Florida State the first unbeaten Power Five conference champion to be excluded from the four-team field.Michigan will face Alabama in the Rose Bowl and Washington will play Texas in the Sugar Bowl in the Jan. 1 CFP semifinals. The national championship will be decided Jan. 8 against Houston.
The final season of the four-team playoff before it expands to 12 next year presented the CFP selection committee with its toughest decision in the 10-year history of the postseason system.
https://www.startribune.com/michigan-vs-alabama-washington-vs-texas-in-college-football-playoff-unbeaten-florida-st-left-out/600324089/