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College Football Playoff approves 5+7 format and Conf Champs reduced from 6 to 5
« Reply #165 on: February 20, 2024, 02:00:44 PM »
https://apnews.com/article/cfp-expansion-33735d72577d17374d718e6c496983e6

While the four highest-ranked conference champions get a first-round bye, teams seeded fifth through 12th will open the postseason on the home field of the higher-ranked team — No. 5 vs. No. 12; No. 6 vs. No. 11; No. 7 vs. No. 10; and No. 8 vs. No. 9. The first of those four games will be on Dec. 20, a Friday night, with the other three first-round contests played the next day.

New Year’s Six bowl games will host the quarterfinals and semifinal playoff games. The first quarterfinal game next season will be New Year’s Eve in the Fiesta Bowl, followed on New Year’s Day by the Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl. The Orange Bowl on Jan. 9, and the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 10, will be the semifinal sites.

The national championship will remain at a neutral site, with next season’s title game Jan. 20 in Atlanta.

The CFP management committee, which is composed of 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, is scheduled to meet in person Wednesday in the Dallas area. Topics could include the still-pending $1.3 billion, six-year deal between ESPN and the CFP that would allow the network to keep exclusive rights to the 12-team playoff through the 2031 season.


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Re: College Football
« Reply #166 on: February 22, 2024, 10:39:55 PM »
I feel a bit sad about this, what made College football so good is that you can't slip up at all during the season, but now with 12 teams getting in you can easily lose two games and still be in, there might be even an outside chance a 3 loss team getting in. It really becomes like every other sport

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Re: College Football
« Reply #167 on: February 23, 2024, 04:50:07 AM »
What will Notre Dame do?  The new rules say conference champions get the bye, thus no bye for ND.  Will they join the All Coasts Conference?  They are more in the B1G geographically.  And the SEC says the only schools it would consider adding are ND and UNC.
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Re: College Football
« Reply #168 on: February 23, 2024, 05:11:02 AM »
What will Notre Dame do?  The new rules say conference champions get the bye, thus no bye for ND.  Will they join the All Coasts Conference?  They are more in the B1G geographically.  And the SEC says the only schools it would consider adding are ND and UNC.

ND will never join a conference.   The "only conf champs get a bye" rule was specifically meant to ensure ND didn't get  two weeks between their last game and the first playoff game. That's what would have happened since they had no conf championship game if they could have earned a bye.