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The days when they put "the best teams" in the playoff are apparently gone. Those were the good old days.Good write-up here, if you're a subscriber to The Athletic:
Why the ACC and Big 12 face a no-win situation in 14-team CFP proposal
Only the ACC and Big 12 have any power to push back on the Big Ten and SEC's plans for the future. But there are tough decisions to make.theathletic.com
Honestly I don't think this is much of a decision for the Big 12. Two bids to the post-season was probably the best case scenario for us already, and this would guarantee that number while leaving open the (unlikely) possibility of a third spot via one of the three at-large bids. If the ACC gets dismembered and we add teams, maybe we go up to three AQ spots and the aristocracy moves up to four each. Or maybe the Big Ten and SEC breakaway entirely, but if they want to do that we're screwed no matter what we do. I think we should probably do whatever we can to put daylight between us and the conferences below us, while remaining close enough competitively to the big two (if possible) that our best programs might be able to win some games in the CFP. This model is probably as good as it's going to get for us short of an NFL-like commitment to maintaining parity (which won't happen).
Just wait- the 2 acc & b12 teams will all play each other until only 1 is left, then that team will play the next week AT the home field of the #1 seed from B1G or SEC, which has had a bye until that game.
SEC, Big Ten would hold rights to first-round byes in new proposed CFP format
Such a concept — guaranteed byes for the Big Ten and SEC — is an unusual but somewhat expected maneuver from college football’s goliaths.
I’d say there is about a 95% chance the two “best teams” are going to come from one of those two leagues anyway.
SEC, Big Ten would hold rights to first-round byes in new proposed CFP format
Such a concept — guaranteed byes for the Big Ten and SEC — is an unusual but somewhat expected maneuver from college football’s goliaths.
Check your math. This format makes it 100%, so that an outlier like the 2010 or 2014 frogs has no shot.
Not much difference between 95 and 100%.
I'm not saying this doesn't suck, but if you went 16 teams with no AQs and divided the revenue up based on "units" for each game teams play in, the Big 12 would probably get less than half of what SEC takes home most years.
This is really very simple. You just get a computerized scoring system that weights the polls for that human element. It will also include prior year performance and recruiting rankings that have nothing to do with the current year’s team performance and it spits out a perfect unbiased top 2. They’d call it Best Competitor System, or just BCS for short.
