Each time expansion takes place it just means that championship caliber teams have to play more games which increases the risk of losing their starting QB to an injury and having their season suddenly ruined.
24 team CFP proposal by Big Ten Conf
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The media wants "parity" so bad that they're willing to completely water down one of the greatest American viewing products in history to get it. It is self serving because the more teams they have to talk about, the more content it gives their platforms.
They don't want parity, they just want more games. My Saturdays are pretty open this fall. Lots of hikes and lots of bike rides in my future. Plus I will save a bunch of money not paying for streaming. I think there will not be enough people like myself that say to hell with them to even put a dent in their wallets. So now we will have a watered down regular season that doesn't matter. 8-4 might get you in at 24th place.
You can have a 10 game regular season then a 7 game playoff that includes 128 teams. Just do that and be done with it. Play your 8 or 9 conference schedule with a tune-up non-conference game.
You impose relegation on the bottom 16 places leaving them open slots for FCS such that the bottom 16 of FBS and the top 16 FCS are vying for the 16 open spots.
You impose relegation on the bottom 16 places leaving them open slots for FCS such that the bottom 16 of FBS and the top 16 FCS are vying for the 16 open spots.
Of course the bowls will exist but I will post a list for all to see of what in entailed last year including the 12 team playoff.
2025-26 College Football Playoff, bowl schedule
The dates, times and sites for all the college football postseason action.
The coach's want 24 teams, helps save their jobs,because if you get in every year you've had a good year and you give yourself a chance, the Big wants 24 as well as fox because better chances and more money for fox, I believe espn wants 16 teams, if it goes to 24 you have to have 23 power 4 and 1 mid major, then have the next 8 play in bowls with no tie ins, look at last year you would've had North Texas St. In over Illinois, Illinois would've beaten the brakes off them,so you have to draw the line
The sport is dying. This is everyone milking as much money out of it that they can before it ultimately kicks the bucket.
CFB is not the NFL, and won't ever be.
CFB is not the NFL, and won't ever be.
Chicken or the egg situation. When teams like Alabama (in CFB) and the Patriots (in NFL) were dominating the media was screaming how it wasn't good for the game. That the overall fanbases were getting "bored" with the same team winning over and over. Of course they want more games so it gives them more content to make money with daytime talk shows, radio shows, podcasts, etc. Parity gives them the same thing but the only way to get parity is to flood the market with "more games". So, they go hand in hand.
There is a lot of smoke brewing from Georgia media about conference expansion in the SEC and fully breaking away from the NCAA going on yesterday.
Imagine clinching a spot in the playoffs and resting your starters during the iron bowl (or insert any season finale rivalry game here). Unfortunately, for every one of us that appreciates the historical side of college football, there are probably 10 others out there that like this new format. Whatever!
It happens in the pros all the time. Even when it is a big rivalry. It will happen in college too. Regular season will be meaningless.
That's the thing I hate most about the expanded playoffs. The college football regular season meant more than any other sport. Every Saturday was do or die. It was a playoff game every week.
If the sec leaves the ncaa the acc will disband after their current tv deal and a 24 team sec will absolutely overshadow whatever the big ten can cobble together. There’s no big names left in the big 12 nor left in the acc teams after we pillage the 8 we want. Heck we could take the top 7 and Tulane for history’s sake and still come out on top. The big ten already made their play taking the pac 12 schools. I actually hope if there’s no cba this happens just to show the rest of the country no one outside the rust belt and Los Angeles gives a you know what about the big ten
I think this all depends on what the SEC is trying to accomplish.
To me the real long play here is for the Big 12, the Big 10 and the SEC to leave the NCAA and form their own 16 team football playoff (I hate one that big, but it is what it is) and 32 team basketball playoff. The SEC and Big 10 would cherry pick the ACC and basically force the Big 12 to take the relevant remaining teams.
I've tried to go over the teams and the math, but I just can't fit all the "bluebloods" and major powers in the SEC and the Big 10. For instance you alluded to 24 SEC teams, that's 8 additions.
Can you really come up with 8 teams that belong in the SEC? That should get a full share of revenue? Remember we're not just talking about sharing post season revenue, but TV revenue.
To me, I can only think of 4 programs outside of the Big 10 that are truly worthy of inclusion. North Carolina, Virginia, Notre Dame, and FSU. I'd grumble a bit about FSU, but the numbers do back those up. Everything else is diminishing returns.
Now if the SEC really gets the foolhardy idea to do their own league, suddenly they are trying to grab the former football powers of the ACC to pretend they're better at football then they are (an illusion that won't last long once they rack up losing records in the SEC). I just don't see how that works though. You can pretend Virginia Tech is something they're not, but a bunch of teams with .500 records will be the end result of that debacle.
1. Free shoes
2. Clemson
3. Ga tech
4. Unc
5. Duke
6. Louisville
7. Uva
8. Nc st/va tech/tulane(I know I’m the only one who wants them)
The problem is the economic realities that creates.
Let's break this down, the SEC has 16 teams. If you add 8 more without any new contract (check up on how well that 9th game worked out, it was below a pro-rated increase) you are basically taking a giant pie and trying to cut out a lot more slices. Remember, the SEC is making about double what the ACC makes, which gives you an idea of the average value of an ACC team.
FSU is the best football brand there, no question, but you are already in the state of Florida and they are squeezed between Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Enough for a pro-rated increase? Hopefully?
Clemson was the second most popular program in the unimportant state of South Carolina for quite some time, that's changed but they are fading hard. No pro-rated increase there, at best you hope to not lose money.
Georgia Tech. Straight up lose money, not even close.
UNC, the home run addition. You would gain money there, huge basketball ratings, king of a big state, actually show up for football games.
Duke, lesser in all of those areas. Best case scenario SEC teams don't take a pay cut, but due to abysmal football showings pay cut is likely.
Louisville, same as Duke basically except they're also redundant with Kentucky. Lose money.
UVA, sneaky good addition due to adding a big state, most popular program in the state, good athletic department. Slight increase likely.
8: All vary from money losers to big money losers
That's without really taking into the account redundancies you create. Virginia would become far less valuable if you add VT (the ACC originally tried to get away with adding Virginia without VT but they cried like a baby and got in), UNC becomes less valuable if you add Duke, NC State's already modest value tanks if you make them your second or third NC school. I've looked it over before, it just doesn't work.
So... basically half of those cost you money to add. And with the way ESPN played hardball on the 9th game, you realistically could see a pay cut in revenue per team even with four cherry picked additions.
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