https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/college-football-playoff-makes-official-12-team-expansion-beginning-in-2024-25-season/

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Great--now Alabama is guaranteed to be in the playoff every year, probably winning it in years that they wouldn't have even gotten a chance.

The Rose Bowl's reign of terror over college football has ended!

Welcome to the era of "The regular season and conference championships don't matter."

I'm all for it. Hopefully this will help with the players opting out of a meaningless bowl game. Now they have something to play for. Hopefully

33 said:

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Welcome to the era of "The regular season and conference championships don't matter."

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Bit of an overstatement. It's still just 12 teams. How many times in the last 15 years would we have been in? Not many.

So we can go 8-4 or 7-5 and still be in the CFP playoff? Sweet!

2012 and 2020 for sure, but that would be 2x in 10 years, and there are a large amount of teams that would never meet that mark.

It is still going to be mostly the same names, for example Bama this year, and Clemson would be in with just the ND loss.

Rose and Sugar host the quarterfinal round each year and don't host a semifinal round either year. Other four (Peach & Fiesta paired, Cotton & Orange paired) get one semi and one quarter in each year. Final round is contracted to Atlanta (Peach site) in 2024 and Miami (Orange site) in 2025.

Update I missed when summarizing.

"The first round of the 2024-25 playoff will take place throughout the week ending Saturday, Dec. 21; the CFP will attempt to schedule those first-round games later in that week. Games will be hosted either at home stadiums of the highest-seeded teams in those games or other sites chosen by that programs for logistical purposes."

Bluecat_Aggie94 said:

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33 said:

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Welcome to the era of "The regular season and conference championships don't matter."

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Bit of an overstatement. It's still just 12 teams. How many times in the last 15 years would we have been in? Not many.

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We'd have a damn championship

Jarrin' Jay said:

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So we can go 8-4 or 7-5 and still be in the CFP playoff? Sweet!

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No. Considering the lowest record of any top 12 team is 9-3.

This is stupid, just plain ****ing stupid. It's like participation trophies in youth sports, now we've just added it to college sports.

Jarrin' Jay said:

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2012 and 2020 for sure, but that would be 2x in 10 years, and there are a large amount of teams that would never meet that mark.

It is still going to be mostly the same names, for example Bama this year, and Clemson would be in with just the ND loss.

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most of those same teams will be in it, but at least with 12 you get new teams into the mix.

so you'd have bama, ohio st , georgia, clemson and michigan, but you'd also get new blood with teams like Tennessee, penn st, utah, kansas st etc... that may never make it into a 4 team fiueld.

also, as mentioned above, Ags would have made a format like this in 2012 and 2020, and in 2012 I would have loved our chances to reach the finals at a minimum.

this is way better than the same 4 or 5 teams completely dominating the field.

there will be years where a non-blue blood gets in and wins it all.

the one thing i like about this is it actually gives us a chance to play for something meaningful

the reality is we were not ever going to get in unless we went undefeated and won sec championship. now we go 10-2 we're in

This is ridiculous, this has nothing to do with getting a NC, it's a 100% money grab. It's hard enough getting 4 qualified candidates. If you're a fan of college football, this is not good news.

33 said:

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Welcome to the era of "The regular season and conference championships don't matter."

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Such a silly argument. Of course the regular season matters. How the hell do you think you get into the playoff?

The point of a playoff is to determine the best team in college football, not the best team as long as every crap conference has a representative and nobody's feeling get hurt.

If the 12 best teams are from the same conference, that's who ought to play for the championship.

G5 doesn't like it? Big 12 and PAC 12 don't like it?

Get better at football.

EliteZags said:

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Bluecat_Aggie94 said:

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33 said:

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Welcome to the era of "The regular season and conference championships don't matter."

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Bit of an overstatement. It's still just 12 teams. How many times in the last 15 years would we have been in? Not many.

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We'd have a damn championship

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Or, we'd lose the opportunity to claim the ones we didn't get a chance to win.

Jarrin' Jay said:

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So we can go 8-4 or 7-5 and still be in the CFP playoff? Sweet!

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No, only Bama can get away with that.

EliteZags said:

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Bluecat_Aggie94 said:

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33 said:

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Welcome to the era of "The regular season and conference championships don't matter."

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Bit of an overstatement. It's still just 12 teams. How many times in the last 15 years would we have been in? Not many.

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We'd have a damn championship

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I don't know that we beat Bama again, but I'd feel confident against just about any other team that year.

AnScAggie said:

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This is stupid, just plain ****ing stupid. It's like participation trophies in youth sports, now we've just added it to college sports.

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Now do the bowl system.

SinKiller said:

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This is ridiculous, this has nothing to do with getting a NC, it's a 100% money grab. It's hard enough getting 4 qualified candidates. If you're a fan of college football, this is not good news.

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Aaaah yes, how dare they subject us college football fans to having to watch more meaningful games in the postseason.

I went back about a decade and even a 9-3 team sneaking in at #12 was rare.

Also, the top four ranked conference champs get the first week bye. In the last ten years, the top four conference champs have been 1-4 almost every year.

This is great for SEC West teams - losses to the #1 and #2 teams in the nation doesn't automatically eliminate you.

And as an aside - as great as this makes the NY6 bowls, the rest of the bowls now get even worse and more irrelevant.

It's official! We will finish the season ranked #13 next year!!

wbt5845 said:

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And as an aside - as great as this makes the NY6 bowls, the rest of the bowls now get even worse and more irrelevant.

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They did that to themselves. We tripled the number of bowl games in the past 2 decades. No one was ever going to care about the galleryfurniture.com bowl or Badboy Mowers bowl regardless.

The cognitive dissonance is amazing that people will complain about the 12 team playoff, but never complained about bowl games being added every year.

The 12 team playoff is now what the bowl system was in the early 90s, when there were only about 10-12 bowl games every year.

greg.w.h said:

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Rose and Sugar host the quarterfinal round each year and don't host a semifinal round either year. Other four (Peach & Fiesta paired, Cotton & Orange paired) get one semi and one quarter in each year. Final round is contracted to Atlanta (Peach site) in 2024 and Miami (Orange site) in 2025.

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This is the biggest BS of the new format.

Every game, except the championship game, should be a college campus to emphasize how much the regular season matters and get rid of supporting Bowl games in NFL and destination cities and their tourism dollars.

Jarrin' Jay said:

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So we can go 8-4 or 7-5 and still be in the CFP playoff? Sweet!

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That is what I thought too. So I checked the previous 10 years of the last rankings (before the final ones).

There were a handful of 9 win teams that would have made the cut. No 8 wins or less were in the top 12.

I guess tu and ou are very pleased.

one reason for the move to a 12-team playoff...

is to stop the opting-out of the NY6 bowls

Iowaggie said:

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greg.w.h said:

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Rose and Sugar host the quarterfinal round each year and don't host a semifinal round either year. Other four (Peach & Fiesta paired, Cotton & Orange paired) get one semi and one quarter in each year. Final round is contracted to Atlanta (Peach site) in 2024 and Miami (Orange site) in 2025.

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This is the biggest BS of the new format.

Every game, except the championship game, should be a college campus to emphasize how much the regular season matters and get rid of supporting Bowl games in NFL and destination cities and their tourism dollars.

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Not all college stadiums are that big. Fewer tickets would be sold and the available seats would be even more expensive. Also, think about having to play a semifinal game in January in a blizzard in a northern state in a college campus open-air stadium.

The first round being played on college campuses is a good compromise.

so A&M does have a chance to win the Rose Bowl someday

that would be nice

one positive...if a team loses a game in September and another in October...their season is not over from the standpoint of winning the national title

33 said:

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Welcome to the era of "The regular season and conference championships don't matter."

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This is false. The championship games will matter a lot in some cases, and in other cases (LSU v Georgia, assuming a Ga would still get in with loss, the two teams have differing levels of value on the game.)
The SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and ACC conference championship games all become playoff games as the winner is the Conference Champion that has won the 5 of 6 playoff spots with the AAC game between Tulane and UCF likely the 6th champion.

Additionally, any top 16 or so team playing last week that were on the bubble to make the 12-team playoffs that were all but out this year would have had even more riding on the game.

wbt5845 said:

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I went back about a decade and even a 9-3 team sneaking in at #12 was rare.

Also, the top four ranked conference champs get the first week bye. In the last ten years, the top four conference champs have been 1-4 almost every year.

This is great for SEC West teams - losses to the #1 and #2 teams in the nation doesn't automatically eliminate you.

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This. Far too much parity in college football scheduling and conferences.