Changes to CFB Playoffs? Likely for 2026 not 2025

[NC_Canes_11]

The games were mostly crap. The home games in cold weather cities makes for garbage football.

It’s the same with the NFL.

Agree. Needs to be 8 teams. Also regionalize conferences and divisions and you get less of that.

 

[Tony4Canes]

 

[mcnaire2004]

I really don't care what changes they make. I just hope we respond by giving ourselves a chance. Consistently playing a garbage schedule doesn't give us a chance.

 

[cway313]

I really don't care what changes they make. I just hope we respond by giving ourselves a chance. Consistently playing a garbage schedule doesn't give us a chance.

Consistently losing to GT doesn't help either.

 

[Tony4Canes]

 

[Tony4Canes]

 

[GojiraCane]

1. Expand to 14 teams
2. 6 SEC teams get automatic bids
3. 6 Big Ten teams gets automatic bids
4. Scholarship limits done away with
5. NIL banned for all schools but Alabama, Georgia, Ohio State, Texas, and LSU
6. Two year sit out period for transfers

 

[Tony4Canes]

 

[Hoyacane1620]

 

[Tony4Canes]

 

[cookies]

Pretty wild to see the change in support for the 24 team model versus the 16 team model these past two years or so.

 

[cookies]

Reducing scheduled bye weeks from 2 to 1? YIKES.

That’s a trainwreck waiting to happen.

 

[Tony4Canes]

 

[cookies]

If we could cut down on the G6 teams in here, which i believe the committee will do now that the format is 24, this ain’t all that bad as a substitute for conference championship games.

Getting in that top 8 IS extra important for that bye week. Quite frankly, this first round basically operates as a large single elimination playin tournament for a 16 team playoff.

 

[SinisterCane]

Whoever makes the championship game from the 16 or 24 Team playoffs won't have enough healthy body to field

 

[Shooter McGavin]

Should be 8 teams. 1 vs 8, 4 vs 5, 3 vs 6, 2 vs 7 format. All neutral site games.

 

[cookies]

Whoever makes the championship game from the 16 or 24 Team playoffs won't have enough healthy body to field

Because of the elimination of conference championship games, it’s the same amount of games if you are a top 8 team who gets a bye as it was for IU.

And at most, there will be two teams who play 17 games; presuming that the 8 teams with byes all get eliminated before the championship game.

The lack of two byes during the regular season, if they go that route, troubles me

 

[cookies]

A ton of interesting quotes in here. SEC entrenching themselves against a 24 team playoff.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey stands firm on 16-team CFP

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey on Monday indicated that a disagreement with the Big Ten -- which backs doubling the current bracket to 24 teams -- is lingering deep into the offseason.

www.espn.com

 

[cookies]

An NCAA committee last month recommended that Football Bowl Subdivision teams play a 12-game schedule over 14 weeks beginning in 2027 with the season starting on the Thursday of what is now designated Week 0 and ending the Saturday after Thanksgiving.

Last week, the American Football Coaches Association proposed changes to the schedule that included eliminating conference championship games, reducing scheduled bye weeks from two to one and reducing the minimum number of days between games to no fewer than six. Sankey suggested he was hearing different from SEC coaches.

“The American Football Coaches Association without, like, picking up the phone and having a conversation with those of us in the decision-making role, issues a set of statements and says we want to get the season done earlier," said Sankey, who contended the AFCA plan had "mutually exclusive" options. "And oh, by the way, we just met with our football coaches, [who] said, 'If we're going to go to Week 0, two open weeks is the priority, not an earlier rush into the postseason.' Two open weeks work for injury purposes, for recovery purposes, for development purposes, is the priority."