OT: FCS playoff goes to 24 teams

Submitted by Baldbill on

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/8276494/fcs-playoffs-expanding-24-teams-2013

 

The FCS has expanded its playoff format. I know it is all about the money in FBS, but it still seems to make so much sense to actually have a playoff.

 

EDIT: For reference the DivII and III tournaments let in 20 teams currently. The top 4 teams get a buy in the first round.

 

 

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August 17th, 2012 at 10:07 AM ^

24 teams seems like too much for any sport, except maybe College Basketball.

Reminds me of this:


Sorry for the Hulu.. Couldn't find elsewhere.


[FAIL. It's the clip from BASEketball where Kenny Mane and Dan Patrick explain the playoff system for the Denslow Cup. If you feel like waiting 45 seconds for Hulu to do its ad thing, it is there for viewing pleasure.]

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Mr Miggle

August 17th, 2012 at 10:52 AM ^

Seeing that makes me think the opposite. I much prefer what we've had in FBS. It's easy to see the trend. With a bowl system, they just keeping adding bowls. Eventually teams with losing records get into bowls that cost them money. A very minor problem. With playoffs, they keep adding more teams. We can disagree on how many are ideal. Whatever the consensus is, they will eventually surpass it.

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blacknblue

August 17th, 2012 at 10:43 AM ^

Everybody knows a playoff can't work in college football, especially playing on college campuses. They just don't have the infrastructure to do something that they do every week. This whole thing will fail in a year.

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cheesheadwolverine

August 17th, 2012 at 11:02 AM ^

This is my fear of what might happen to FBS. Would make a lot of the regular season meaningless for a lot of teams and would decrease the chance of the best team over the course of the year wins the title. Please, please never more than 8 in the FBS.

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CJK5H

August 17th, 2012 at 11:15 AM ^

Scary headline right there.

The one thing that I have always loved about college football is how important the regular season is, a loss on any given week can ruin your whole season which makes watching every single game that much more exciting.  I think four is the perfect amount because in all reality if you are outside the top four, its hard to make a real case that you are the best team in the nation.  I really doubt the 24th place team in the FCS can make an argument that they are or had the best regular season. 

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Tater

August 17th, 2012 at 12:01 PM ^

This invalidates every old, trite supporting argument about how a playoff would negatively impact "student-athletes."  FCS, which is supposed to be less of a "football factory" situation, can run a 24-team playoff without negatively affecting their players, but eight teams is too much for the FBS.

It sorta lends a different meaning to "FBS."

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