Official 2025 CFPO Change Has Happened

[AtlAtty]

Incredibly ignorant statement from Phillips. That he still has a job is beyond me. It’s almost as though he is employed by the Big Ten and SEC to run a lesser conference. It’s like being a manager of a minor league team and having decisions dictated by the major league team.

 

[Us Against The World]

6 SEC
5 BIG
ND

 

[Ryanmilli]

Incredibly ignorant statement from Phillips. That he still has a job is beyond me. It’s almost as though he is employed by the Big Ten and SEC to run a lesser conference. It’s like being a manager of a minor league team and having decisions dictated by the major league team.

Seems like he's openly admitting that he breached his fiduciary duty to the conference and its members.

 

[Empirical Cane]

It is [essentially ACCCG] Miami's ONLY path to CFPO.

Ok @Alex_Dynamix and @Ispyin ...

Lay out your scenario(s) for how my thesis is inaccurate.

 

[Empirical Cane]

This quote is insane. The ACC Commish should be acting in the best interest of the ACC. You'll NEVER hear SEC/B1G commissioners earnestly say something like this.

 

[Caneofcanes]

College basketball conference winners are not automatically granted the top seeds. The worst 2 actually have to play-in for the 16 seed. Wining your division in NBA no longer gets you anything.

I can agree with that, but in football it usually means you’re going to the finals. In college it should at least get a bye.

 

[Ryanmilli]

Ok @Alex_Dynamix and @Ispyin ...

Lay out your scenario(s) for how my thesis is inaccurate.

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As I understand it, the 5 conference champs are still guaranteed a spot but the favorable seeding and bye for the 4 highest ranked champs goes away.

So basically if you apply the current rules to last year's CFP, the matchups would have been different, but the teams would have been the same (see https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-football-playoff-seeding-change-2024-bracket). So the ACC theoretically would have still had 2 teams in if the new rules were in place last year. That remains possible.

If UM plays Clemson in the ACCCG, both teams come in top 10ish with 1 loss or fewer, and the game is competitive, I would guess there is a good shot at both getting in.

But I definitely agree with your sentiment - the only guarantee of getting in is to win the ACCCG. You cannot leave it in the hands of the CFP committee, especially with the perception among some that it "screwed" an SEC team last year.

 

[Empirical Cane]

As I understand it, the 5 conference champs are still guaranteed a spot but the favorable seeding and bye for the 4 highest ranked champs goes away.

So basically if you apply the current rules to last year's CFP, the matchups would have been different, but the teams would have been the same (see https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-football-playoff-seeding-change-2024-bracket). So the ACC theoretically would have still had 2 teams in if the new rules were in place last year. That remains possible.

If UM plays Clemson in the ACCCG, both teams come in top 10ish with 1 loss or fewer, and the game is competitive, I would guess there is a good shot at both getting in.

But I definitely agree with your sentiment - the only guarantee of getting in is to win the ACCCG. You cannot leave it in the hands of the CFP committee, especially with the perception among some that it "screwed" an SEC team last year.

The Committee now has even broader re-ranking authority.

Re-run last year and I don't believe SMU gets in, but Ol' Miss does.

 

[Empirical Cane]

Basically the P2 told Jim P to bend over and his response was “Will you be using lube?”

 

[Felonious Monk]

Basically the P2 told Jim P to bend over and his response was “No need for lube”

Correct.

 

[Empirical Cane]

I think that $8M goes to the conference so doesn't matter who wins it. Although with new ACC rev share I assume we'd get a slightly larger piece of the $8M if we won.

Phillips agreed to give back all ACC playoff money to SEC and B1G while those Commish run a train on his wife.

 

[Ryanmilli]

The Committee now has even broader re-ranking authority.

Re-run last year and I don't believe SMU gets in, but Ol' Miss does.

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What do you mean by broader re-ranking authority? The committee ranked SMU #10 and put Ole Miss behind both Alabama and Miami. As far as I know there was no formulaic basis for the committee's CFP rankings that no longer exists. Unless I am wrong about that, I think SMU sucking against PSU is more problematic than the seeding change. Again, I generally agree with you that the safest assumption is that only the ACCCG is safely in.

 

[RF-4CCane]

The talking heads said AZST wasn’t worthy, then they came within a Big 10 officiating crew, non call of a blatant targeting, of knocking Texas out of the playoffs.

 

[Dees Brown]

Does this prompted a ACC/BIg 12 merger?

 

[Empirical Cane]

What do you mean by broader re-ranking authority? The committee ranked SMU #10 and put Ole Miss behind both Alabama and Miami. As far as I know there was no formulaic basis for the committee's CFP rankings that no longer exists. Unless I am wrong about that, I think SMU sucking against PSU is more problematic than the seeding change. Again, I generally agree with you that the safest assumption is that only the ACCCG is safely in.

I believe by relieving the Committee of the constraint of locking in the conference champions in seeds 1-4, they are now "free" to have broader discretion top to bottom of who gets in and who is pushed out.

When a drill was run racking and stacking Arizona and Boise under the new system, I think their fall to the bottom of the seeds makes it very difficult to include an SMU or BigXII runner-up over an Ole Miss [insert B1G darling too] from last year.

#WatchTheFinish

 

[Cajuncane]

Basically the P2 told Jim P to bend over and his response was “Will you be using lube?”

And they said “ just bend over we will do as we please”….

 

[Sugarcane521]

Need to win ACC this season its becoming a must. **** or get off the pot

 

[ghost2]

Need to win ACC this season its becoming a must. **** or get off the pot

Really we need to get off the pot as soon as possible. The longer we linger in the ACC the farther behind the P2 we fall.

 

[Cane Fan 4 Life]

At this point, the SEC and BIG10 are completely content with playing against themselves. Everyone wants into the conference to get a big piece of $.

The leaders of ACC, BIG12, and everyone else need to replicate what they are doing. Be leaders and promote your own brand. Make their own super conference.

Have more conference games and less cupcake teams. Nobody wants to watch big schools against smaller schools unless it’s my Georgia Southern Eagles beating down the Gators.

 

[wdk3618]

I get that Phillips could not stop this...but he sure as **** did not need to put out that insane and ridiculous quote. We shouldn't even be surprised anymore.