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What did we learn from the first 12 team CFP?

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regular season should be a total of 10 games, with game 11 being conference championship, then goes to a 64 team playoff bracket. No bye week in playoffs.
 
I hope next year is full of chaos. No real complaints about this past season apart from not being undefeated. Could be improved if every conference had a semifinal for the CCGs.

Lots of teams can beat other teams if you give them lots of chances. I just inherently don't like the idea of being sold that we're looking for the best team and really we're looking for entertainment. That's that is really my biggest dislike about the playoff model.
 
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DTP said:
I really enjoyed the playoff. The first round was a bunch of blowouts but the rest was a lot of great football. I found it weird that all the teams with byes lost but I think that’s more of a freak occurrence than an omen.

I LOVED not seeing Alabama or Georgia playing in the final four. Ohio State was the most talented squad but they weren’t this unstoppable juggernaut like we had in the past. The national champion lost three games this year. The runner up lost to Northern Illinois. College football is so much better when it’s not just a contest between Alabama and Georgia.
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The national champion lost 3 games this year? OSU lost to Oregon and Michigan
 
Dwinstitles said:
They always spent, their fans think it’s a holy program but they been spending for ages. They think that program is squeaky clean when no program is. At the top are the dirtiest, but not mad at them. Do you if you want to win by all means
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The blueprint has been laid by Michigan and Ohio State...pay your good/great players to come back for another year to win a championship. Miami can spend $20 million plus on their roster if they want to. Question is will this administration go all in?
 
IbzRlz said:
The blueprint has been laid by Michigan and Ohio State...pay your good/great players to come back for another year to win a championship. Miami can spend $20 million plus on their roster if they want to. Question is will this administration go all in?
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We been paying a lot of colleges been paying. That’s why they can’t snitch on each other cause they all do it. Remember the coach on Manny staff saying everyone spending before NIL. And there was nothing they could do. He stood anonymous for a reason. Because they do it as well. If you confident you put your name in it.
 
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What I learned is that if Ohio St has the most players drafted this year as they are expected to, this will make 6 years in a row where the CFB champion had the most players drafted in the next draft.

We are definitely better than we were, but we aren't at that level yet.
 
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Dwinstitles said:
We been paying a lot of colleges been paying. That’s why they can’t snitch on each other cause they all do it. Remember the coach on Manny staff saying everyone spending before NIL. And there was nothing they could do. He stood anonymous for a reason. Because they do it as well. If you confident you clean out your name in it.
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Not my point that schools have paid in the past...that's irrelevant at this point. NIL now allows every school to pay for players, so the ball is in Miami's court if they want to spend like the big boys AND they have the ability to coach up talent. Most of Ohio State's NIL money went to retain players already on the roster like Sawyer, JT, Simon, etc. Yes, they brought in Judkins, Howard and Downs, but paying their own players to return and not go pro was the key
 
We also learned that the final 4 teams had HCs that were highly regarded coordinators before becoming HCs. That was the case for most of the playoff teams. The only one I can think of that was sort of like Cristobal (a “program builder” who has to hit home runs with coordinator hires on both sides of ball) was Dabo. Suggests that Cristobal is an outlier.
 
Still don't like that they expanded all the way to 12. Random occurrence that it was more spicy with many 2 loss teams on the brink. #1 seed should play lowest winning seed from first round like NFL. First round was boring with the blowouts, but extra football wasn't all bad. I liked the timeline of when they held the games for consecutive days of important games coinciding with NFL playoffs and didn't mind it expanding out to the 20th. It still held my interest despite an awful Final 4.
Ohio State winning it all with 2 losses encourages the committee to just keep putting in the brand names with the expectation they continue to roll the Boise States of the world regardless of how they looked on the field in regular season.

They also need to move ESD somehow to stop it from interfering with conference championship week with the importance placed on that surrounding playoffs. Can't imagine the conference contenders like having to worry about recruiting that week even with 95% of their class locked in.
 
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Dwinstitles said:
They always spent, their fans think it’s a holy program but they been spending for ages. They think that program is squeaky clean when no program is. At the top are the dirtiest, but not mad at them. Do you if you want to win by all means
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Day said it would cost 20 million for a championship roster, he then went and got Judkins and Downs from the good ole $EC
 
I learned it's probably best to lose a game somewhere along the way since it's just too difficult to go 16-0 in this era of college football. Look at Taint. They went through the season looking good but not great then they started to really click when the playoffs started.
 
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Here's what I learned:

3 of the Final 4 teams in the CFP had top 5 Defenses.
 
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