Question about this 24 team absurdity.

[TheOriginalCane]

maybe he meant the amount of games is a bit much for football... we're looking at what 12regular season and 4-6 playoffs depending on where you fall in ranking.... 16-18games...

24 teams will involve 8 byes and 16 first-round matchups. So, you know, 5 rounds. Not 6.

Currently, it's 4 rounds, but some of those teams play conference championship games.

Eliminate the championship games, add one extra round, it's all the same. Get the action started quicker.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

100% a money grab by the NCAA.

The NCAA organizes the basketball tournament.

The NCAA does NOT organize the football playoffs. Thus, the NCAA is not grabbing any money.

 

[TheOriginalCane]

Math. It's simple math.

Week One Playoffs - 16 teams in playoffs.
Week Two Playoffs - 8 teams in playoffs.
Week Three Playoffs - 4 teams in playoffs
Week Four - National Championship.

16 teams times 2 would accommodate 32 teams - and only add one additional week.
But there's no real good reason for that.

When you get outside the math and throw in extras - that's just mess.

Just tell Notre Dame to tighten up - or GTFO. Whining little b***ches.

Adding a 5th round would not add one additional week if conference championship games are eliminated.

Which is what will happen.

 

[cookies]

The people in power who want 16 teams do not want:

1. To eliminate conference championship games

2. To go straight up 1 vs 16, 2 v 15, etc.

First, you should know that it is believed that ESPN owns up to 13 games (the current 11 games plus two more additional games). If that’s true, that may only leave 10 games up for bid — most of them first-round affairs pitting plenty of three- and four-loss programs.

From a television perspective, the worth of each of those games may be as little as $10 million, according to some experts, and as much as $25 million. Add in a few dollars ($50-75 million) in on-campus game revenue and you are left with a wide range.

Some say as little as $300 million and others say as much as $700 million. The key amount to keep in mind is $250 million — the estimated value of the 10 FBS conference championship games, which, in a 24-team format, would need to be eliminated and their amounts recuperated from an expanded postseason.

With push for 24-team CFP field ramping up, Greg Sankey and SEC holding fast against it

The CFP's annual two-day spring meetings produced no decision on a future format. But it might have paved the way for a more serious discussion moving forward.

sports.yahoo.com

The SEC title game is valued at least $80 million and as high as $100 million, according to those with knowledge of the projections. The Big Ten isn’t much lower. Can the leagues fill that budgetary hole?

Many of Sankey’s own members have publicly called for the elimination of a championship game that they believe has been devalued with a playoff expansion to 12 teams. There is one problem with that: The SEC is contractually obligated, through ESPN, to play the game.

After ACC and others throw support behind 24-team CFP, the ball is now in the SEC's court

Now that the other powerbrokers in college football have pulled an about-face and want a 24-team postseason, Greg Sankey's league (and ESPN) may be the only thing stopping it from happening.

sports.yahoo.com

The SEC’s title game is worth as much as $100 million, the Big Ten around $75 million, and the ACC and Big 12 games are each at or north of $50 million, according to the leagues’ estimations

 

[Cane_Mutiny]

A 24-team playoff means that 8-4 Iowa, the sixth best team in the B10, would have been in the field with a chance to win the national title last year.

For most serious programs, the regular season wouldn't matter anymore. Just sleepwalk your way to 9 wins, lock up a playoff spot, and then try to make a run in a single-elimination tournament.

One of the defining characteristics of college football is that the regular season is high stakes. This would effectively sacrifice that to create more high stakes playoff games.