Over the past few weeks, there has been numerous sources that indicate the current belief around the NCAA is that the 4-team College Football Playoff, which is really just the BCS+1 model under a different name, is in its final years, as the College Football Playoff Committee has submitted a proposal to replace it with a 12-team Playoff, to make Division IA football more in line with every other college football sub-division.
Well, yesterday, a very important hurdle was cleared. The 11 College Presidents and Chancellors that run the entire CFP show, just authorized a review of not just the feasibility of expansion., but the actual steps that would be required to implement it. That is, it's more than just an exploratory committee kind of thing, this is "Assuming this happens, how do we go about installing it?" level. As in, CFP expansion to a 12-team model is probably a mere formality at this point. It's happening, they just have to figure out how to do it. So, what is this proposal, anyway? Well, the committee came up with the idea of taking the best (highest ranked) 6 conference champions, and then taking 6 at-large bids. One of the interesting things about this proposal, is that it erases the idea of the "Power Five". That is, the current P5 conference champions are NOT guaranteed...something the PAC-12 is currently fighting to include. The PAC-12 wants a guarantee that the champions of the five power conferences are automatically included. Personally, I think it's a silly argument, it's almost guaranteed that the the P5 conference champions would be considered better than just about any non-P5 conference champion anyway, so I am not sure what the PAC-12's real issue is...are they really that worried about the Mountain West, and Boise State? If a P5 champion fails to make the Playoff field, even with 6 conference champion slots and 6-at large bids, chances are they don't really belong in the playoff anyway... Now, obviously, with 12 teams, that is 4 weeks of football...so when would this all happen? The top 4 teams would all get byes, so the first round would consist of the #5 through #12 seeded teams. The First round would be a week or so after the Conference Championship games, at the higher seeded school's campus, and would match up 5/12, 6/11, 7/10 and 8/9 seeds. Then, the Quarter and Semi-Finals would be at standard bowl locations, (likely on or around January 1 for the Quarters, and then a week after that for the Semis) with the National Championship game being at a rotating neutral site...just like it is now. One possible major stumbling block also never came to be. Under the proposed model, because Notre Dame is back to being an Independent officially, and not a member of the ACC, they cannot be one of the included conference champions. Notre Dame only has the 6 at large bids to count on, while other teams can get in either as an at-large, or as a conference champion. Yet, Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says he is perfectly fine with that. So: - 12-Teams. - 6 champs, 6 At larges. - Top 4 get 1st round bye - 1st Round games on campus - 2nd Round on/around New Years Day - No truly guaranteed bids - Slightly harder for Independent to make it versus team with conference affiliation.
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