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Thoughts on coming 12 team playoff?
godawgst
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1) It's a money grab above all else no matter what the NCAA says
2) See #1
Overall thoughts is the Regular Season becomes watered down, devalued and is now about seeding
There are 15-20 P5 AD's (including Jen Cowen) who should be fired for financial maleficence if they ever schedule any non-conference game that isn't a lay-up
If you lose 0-2 games your in, and even if you lose three you will be on the bubble.
New Pac-12 Commissioners 1st order of business even above next TV deal is to try and convince Presidents of stepping back to 8 conference games. Playing the 9th one is even more of a suicide mission now versus the ACC and specifically the SEC
2) See #1
Overall thoughts is the Regular Season becomes watered down, devalued and is now about seeding
There are 15-20 P5 AD's (including Jen Cowen) who should be fired for financial maleficence if they ever schedule any non-conference game that isn't a lay-up
If you lose 0-2 games your in, and even if you lose three you will be on the bubble.
New Pac-12 Commissioners 1st order of business even above next TV deal is to try and convince Presidents of stepping back to 8 conference games. Playing the 9th one is even more of a suicide mission now versus the ACC and specifically the SEC
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There's 12 regular season games. 9 conference games.
It's not the NBA/MLB/NHL. People are tuning in.
And that's with scheduling FCS.
What this is actually going to kill is the conference championships. They won't mean a thing unless one team involved thinks they're on the bubble.
There will probably be some blowouts in the first few years until recruiting starts to balance out. I could easily see a 12 beating a 5 in round 1 and then getting blown out by 50 against the 1 seed.
Very interesting to see Notre Dame sign off on this because the highest seed they can get is a 5 due to not being in a conference. Unless this portends them now joining a conference.
Edit - nevermind, with the first round bye format there would still be an NY6 rotation. Or we can just tell peach and cotton to fuck off.
I dont want to devalue regular season games, BUT, diminishing the fear of a single loss could lead to better regular season matchups. The need to go 12-0 with a +40 margin of victory makes college football pretty boring for me. Maybe that's why I pay more attention to dumb shit like recruiting and roster battles than final scores these days.
Its the script
Otherwise just go back to the way was pre BCS. Those day were peak NCAA football. This half ass playoff/half ass bowl games is fucking retarded. Pick one.