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CFP moving to 24 teams

Calinative said:
Doubling the playoff spots and increasing total playoff games from 11 games to 23 games (>double) for ONLY a 26% increase in revenue from ESPN - $1.3B/yr to $1.645B... and technically all it ACTUALLY does is take away conferences control of conference championship week and hands it to ESPN. Technically the conferences TODAY could announce a champions and choose the 2nd-4th best to compete in their "champ week" game and try to let one of them earn/solidify their CFP spot.... So yeah not a lot of sense being made

However I'll just continue to say Conference Realignment is THE critical need here. This setup at 24 teams is ****ed BECAUSE there are two "elite" conferences, two mediocre conferences, then everyone else (G6) with extremely unequal quality of scheduling and conference strength. If you move to like 7-8 smaller divisions totalling 56-72teams, you can make the 24 team playoff make a lot more sense. Like just simple match could be 8 divisions that are equally strength and regional with protected rivalries in CFP competition, top 2 per division get playoff spots and 8 more "at-large" like you can make this far better
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It’s not even about conference “strength”. They just choose who the top conferences are and these so called elite conferences get to avoid playing anyone outside their elite conferences. A very fine Ponzi scheme.
 
That’s true BYU **** the bed. But both their losses were to a contender in Tech. If they would have made the game close they would have had a legit gripe. OU was just playing plain bad football at the end of the year.
 
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