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What did we learn from the first 12 team CFP?

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1. Conf championship has become irrelevant. Particularly with the larger conferences
2. College football season should wrap up by 2nd week in Jan at the latest
3. Transfer portal timing during the playoffs is weird. Clean that up

Even with all the above, the biggest problem is the current state of CFP didn't create enough good games. They need to prioritize putting good teams against each other and have them decide on the field. Instead of trying to be overly "fair" and skew towards conference champions.
 
I supported and still support the expanded playoffs.

Thinking expansion made the regular season is misguided. 2024 proved otherwise. The 5th and 8th seeds played for the title. Arizona State was a bad no-call and a 4th-down defensive lapse from upsetting Texas. A number of teams were in the CFP race until the conclusion of conference championship weekend.

The participants were practically predetermined in the 4-team / No-Transfer Portal / No-NIL CFP era. The regular season was meaningless for all but a handful of teams from Week 1 opening kickoff.
 
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HurricanePhilly said:
I’m really torn. I love college football. I don’t watch the nfl.

I’m fine with some money. I like the playoff idea as every other level has it.

But as usual the NCAA had no plan. For any of it. So my hope is they figure some things out asap and NIL starts to level out (which I think it will in time…millionaires aren’t rich by not having a return).
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It will never level out, under the table money will always exist. If they come up with a system it’s just smoke and mirrors for fans to believe it’s a fair process, and those very fans will put the blinders on as they have for years.
 
TheATLCane said:
1. Conf championship has become irrelevant. Particularly with the larger conferences
2. College football season should wrap up by 2nd week in Jan at the latest
3. Transfer portal timing during the playoffs is weird. Clean that up

Even with all the above, the biggest problem is the current state of CFP didn't create enough good games. They need to prioritize putting good teams against each other and have them decide on the field. Instead of trying to be overly "fair" and skew towards conference champions.
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Agree with 2 and 3. The calendar is messed up.

I think I read the coaches unanimously votes for a single transfer portal window in January.

Regarding not 'enough good games', this was true this season. The opening round of home games was bad. All blowouts. 12 games was too many, should have been 8. This would have been a better test of CFP expansion.

In comparison though, not all NFL playoff games and Super Bowls are good games by NFL standards. Many are downright boring unless you're a fan of a playoff team, follow certain players, or appreciate nuisances of the game the vast majority of fans fail to understand.
 
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TemplarCane said:
I supported and still support the expanded playoffs.

Thinking expansion made the regular season is misguided. 2024 proved otherwise. The 5th and 8th seeds played for the title. Arizona State was a bad no-call and a 4th-down defensive lapse from upsetting Texas. A number of teams were in the CFP race until the conclusion of conference championship weekend.

The participants were practically predetermined. in the 4-team / No-Transfer Portal / No-NIL CFP era. The regular season was meaningless for all but a handful of teams from Week 1 opening kickoff.
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Agreed. The number of teams with a shot at the playoffs come November was great.

Easiest solution is to expand to 16, have the committee rank them 1-16 and forget about seeds. 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15 etc. No byes. That won't happen though because the P2 will want their guaranteed bids.
 
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We leaned that no matter if its 2, 4, or 12 games, or even if you have the best QB and offense in the country, The Curse of the Orange Bowl, ain't relinquishing its grip on us anytime soon.

This was one of the cruelest years yet of that wicked OB Curse. But face it, and it's not just the Mopes, down deep we all knew this collapse was coming.
 
TheATLCane said:
1. Conf championship has become irrelevant. Particularly with the larger conferences
2. College football season should wrap up by 2nd week in Jan at the latest
3. Transfer portal timing during the playoffs is weird. Clean that up

Even with all the above, the biggest problem is the current state of CFP didn't create enough good games. They need to prioritize putting good teams against each other and have them decide on the field. Instead of trying to be overly "fair" and skew towards conference champions.
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Need to drop the extra weeks between rivalry week and playoff. Conference champ week is useless, next week is only Army/Navy. Trim that and end the season the Saturday after New Years. Back into the format with those time constraints
 
Kalikgod said:
Need to drop the extra weeks between rivalry week and playoff. Conference champ week is useless, next week is only Army/Navy. Trim that and end the season the Saturday after New Years. Back into the format with those time constraints
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Also, move non-New Years bowl games to Spring Break/Game season in March/April. Bowl games outcomes don’t matter anyway, fans get to fly south for vacation and get a preview of their new roster playing against an actual opponent. Time it right after baseball spring training.
 
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We learned that those with the money will make sure the teams they want have the shot. Football officiating in both the NFL and CFP are a complete joke and clearly either badly badly untrained and mismanaged or bought and paid for.
 
cway313 said:
Just call it minor league football. College football is over.
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isn't it ironic that the minor league can offer and pay players a **** of a lot more that they could make in some instances in the Major league?.......crazy stuff to even think about...
 
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