All Five Conference Champs Lost Their First Game In The Playoff
- By Quix0te
- Boilermaker Football
- 10 Replies
The CFP should never have been expanded to 12 teams and conferences like the mountain whatever, pac 12 and acc should never have been given automatic seeds. The overall seeding was terrible!
Right. Abolish all CCGs and expand the playoff to 32 teams. Give a guaranteed spot to each P4 and G5 conference champ, but teams are seeded by their ranking and not by being a conf champ. Four brackets with four #1 seeds, four #2 seeds, etc, just like March Madness. The 2 or 3 G5 conf champs who aren't ranked in the top 32 would displace the #32, #31, #30 whatever ranked teams.I don’t mind the top rated from 5 conferences if they are the top 5 rated, forget about conference championship games. And the seeds should be based on ratings just like in basketball. You could have multiple teams from same conference as 1 seeds in basketball, why can’t we do that here?
Tweak the brackets to avoid repeat matchups and to spread out the Big Ten and SEC teams as much as possible. No more Oregon-Ohio St repeat games unless they reach the Final Four.
Conference championship games are now meaningless. The losers of the Big Ten CCG and the SEC CCG ended up with easier pathways to the NC than the CCG winners did.