24 team CFP proposal by Big Ten Conf

[rjtide]

Dang.....24 teams. All about revenue generation

Big Ten details 24-team CFP plan with no league title games

The Big Ten is circulating an internal document that lays out what a 24-team CFP would look like, including the elimination of conference championship games, a 23+1 selection model and an additional weekend of on-campus CFP home games.

www.espn.com

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Actively trying to make me hate this sport more and more.

 

[Joefus]

No way they get the sec to vote for this.

 

[PA Tide Fan]

So all the top programs who we know before the season will make the playoff would play a whole regular season just to determine home field advantage for the playoff. Not much to get excited about.

 

[CrimsonBloodn62]

No way they get the sec to vote for this.

I wouldn’t say that, because the Big 10 made Stankey cave into moving the SEC to a nine game conference schedule, while the other conferences are probably laughing at him for caving.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Some months ago, only partially tongue-in-cheek, I suggested a 128 team playoff.

Nine regular season games followed by a playoff needing 7 rounds. A maximum of 16 games. Same as today’s max (12 reg season, 1 CCG, and 3 playoff games).

I thought it was using satire to illustrate absurdity.

Turns out, it might be prescient — kind of like the movie Network.

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Dang.....24 teams. All about revenue generation

Big Ten details 24-team CFP plan with no league title games

The Big Ten is circulating an internal document that lays out what a 24-team CFP would look like, including the elimination of conference championship games, a 23+1 selection model and an additional weekend of on-campus CFP home games.

www.espn.com

I guess sin the Big 10 has won the last three NCs, they feel like they have more clout that anyone else.

If this did happen, I see absolutely no reason to keep a nine-game SEC Schedule...

 

[NoNC4Tubs]

Some months ago, only partially tongue-in-cheek, I suggested a 128 team playoff.

Nine regular season games followed by a playoff needing 7 rounds. A maximum of 16 games. Same as today’s max (12 reg season, 1 CCG, and 3 playoff games).

I thought it was using satire to illustrate absurdity.

Turns out, it might be prescient — kind of like the movie Network.

Basically what we already have...

 

[CrimsonTheory]

I wouldn’t say that, because the Big 10 made Stankey cave into moving the SEC to a nine game conference schedule, while the other conferences are probably laughing at him for caving.

Maybe but if I am Stankey I would still tell them to go pound sand about a 24 team playoff.

 

[davefrat]

Look at the bright side, we could go 9-3 and make the playoff every year.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

Look at the bright side, we could go 9-3 and make the playoff every year.

Shoot, man...do it my way and everybody makes the playoff every year. Participation trophies for everybody!

 

[BamaHoopsBoi]

Can we not do 24? 12 is plenty, thank you.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Wasn't it also the B1G that was pushing for 96 teams in basketball?

 

[AlistarWills]

Broadcast wise this is impossible. They would have to split the playoff across multiple broadcasters and games would have to be on at the same time. I do not see broadcasters ponying up the necessary money to get in on this and not be the only game on.

 

[countrytider]

“Elimination of conference championship games”….

The only legit idea in this proposal..

 

[DzynKingRTR]

Can we not do 24? 12 is plenty, thank you.

12 is too many actually, but they won't go back.

 

[GrayTide]

24 team CFB Playoff proposal sucks.

 

[BamaHoopsBoi]

12 is too many actually, but they won't go back.

Completely agree. I was never a fan of even going above 4.. But here we are.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

What's hilarious is - remember all the whining on one side about teams allegedly snubbed in the four-team and on the other side the pro-Four Team folks pointing out we never could get MORE than 2 good games at most in a playoff?

In 2024, we had exactly THREE good games in the playoff: Texas-Ariz St, Texas-Ohio St, and Notre Dame-Penn St. Yes, we added EIGHT TEAMS and added all of ONE GOOD GAME.

In 2025, we had FIVE good games, Ole Miss vs UGA and the 4 games with Miami in them. And one of those was a horrid 10-3 snooze-fest when Miami beat the Aggies, so it was close but it wasn't really a good game, either.

Soon we'll have a year where two first-round games are two of the best ever and the others are all trash.

And couldn't Indiana simply have played Georgia to determine the national champion this past year?

 

[CB4]

The B1G wants expansion to 24 for only one reason: the conference is historically “top heavy”. The past two years it was tOSU & Indiana Oregon . The previous years tOSU & Indiana, Oregon and Penn State. They know that 12 or 16 will always favor the SEC getting at least four and in most cases five teams based on overall conference strength. A 24 benefits them in getting a fifth team in each year.

But the bottom line to all this is simply about “more games”. It isn’t about “fairness or opportunity”. They really don’t care about the quality of the product. It’s more games to sell to the network, and more money for the conferences.