B1G & SEC Power Grab
Regarding Automic bids in an expanded CFP, they do make some good points.
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I feel like a playoff without auto bids will basically shake out to what a playoff WITH auto bids would look like most years anyway. 🤷♂️
Its about $$$. If they say the B10 & SEC have ~60% of the spots, they deserve most of the revenue.
I’m not sure why everyone is so confident about this
The “committee” or whatever equivalent will be comparing 9-3 teams who have gone through the grinder with losses to Ohio state Michigan and Oregon with a big 12 team with losses to UCF and Kansas State
That added content is their rationale supporting it, not the news itself mate.
It will be the same teams each year...
I just don't want "December/January Madness" to be the dominant portion of the CFB season. Champs are going to play min 16 games, 4 at a neutral site. That's 1/4 of the season in a made-for-TV event, instead of a made-for-campus event. If the 3rd place team in the league gets an autobid - how important is it to win the league? It matters to us today - but is UGA crying that they lost the SEC in '21? No, they hoot about how they "won when it mattered." it ALWAYS matters. But now...it just means less.
I kinda want the super league era to end up with 6-9 schools who play a small league schedule and lots of OOC rivalries and the rest of the power 4 or whatever breaks into smaller regional leagues who play full round robins. There's 70 P5 schools including the Pac2? +ND? That's like 8 x9 team leagues or less, or 9x8 team leagues or less. 3 at larges and a PERFECT playoff system. Winning your league matters. Winning OOC games matters for seeding, byes, rivalry and at-larges. Rematches will be rare. Let's go!
Great points!
My thing - 15 games is already too long a season for student athletes. Can we kill the conference title games? With playoff expanding and both teams going to playoff, they are pointless. If there are multiple autobids in the conference, just give one to each division and get rid of the championship game. Or make the championship game round one of the playoffs.
This will never happen because $$$.
Cbs sports website is, quite literally, insufferable. Every time I click on a link I am immediately backing out.
OP- Did you mean to use atomic or automatic in your message?
Each word would be appropriate…
Team with most ALL TIME wins gets automatic playoff spot every year.
No just no. Getting sick of d1 attitude. Support the Cinderellas and Underdogs!
Here's how I see it playing out.
The Big Ten and SEC hold the cards and have no reason to share revenue in any sport with mid majors like Butler, Gonazaga, South Florida, Marquette etc etc. Leave the NCAA and drop a handful of turd programs on the way out... Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Rutgers, come to mind easily. They can form new leagues and the new D1 formed by the Big Ten and SEC can let a set number of at larges in from their new league and the mid major programs-- but the days of cupcake schedules and auto bids for program that wouldn't compete in a power 5 are going to be over. Too much money at stake. Conferences like the ACC, PAC, Big East, Big 12 become defacto Division II programs and everybody else shifts down. If some program grows or declines, they can deal with them
IMO the Hoops tournament would be more interesting because the initial week would be way more competitive. I get the underdog appeal but it only goes so far and those teams never win it all.