(01-11-2021 12:19 AM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(01-10-2021 10:35 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(01-10-2021 07:50 PM)ken d Wrote:  

(01-10-2021 04:35 PM)Kit-Cat Wrote:  

(01-10-2021 04:23 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  I like it better than 5/1/2, less than straight-8.

One thing it definitely does is raises the stakes of conference championship games.

Let's think about that. Your view is one I shared when I proposed this. But consider what happens now if 15th ranked Northwestern upsets 3rd ranked Ohio State in the B1G CCG. With only four CFP slots, the Buckeyes almost surely get knocked out. But with 8 CFP slots, maybe Northwestern is still not one of the 6 highest ranked champions and gets left out of the CFP. But would Ohio State drop far enough to also be left out, or could they still get in as an at-large?

The whole point is that the Big Ten doesn’t (and the other P5 leagues don’t) even want that to be a discussion. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the #1 reason for an expansion to an 8-team playoff (outside of just straight up making more money) is so that there will be auto-bids for the P5 100% guaranteed even if their champ is 6-6 (much less ranked #15). We can debate whether that’s a good thing or not, but that’s the reality of why an 8-team playoff would happen in the first place. A “top 6” conference champ system where the Sun Belt champ (much less the AAC champ) gets in instead of the Pac-12 champ just isn’t happening.

Who has said 8 teams is about autobids for the P5 so they can be 100% guaranteed?

If autobids were such a priority why didn't the P5 insist on a playoff with autobids last time around?

Yeah, that's why I don't think the P5 care as much about 100% guarantees in an 8-team playoff as FT does - if it is so important why has it never existed, up to and including this very day?

Doesn't compute for me. I do not doubt that the P5 would like their champs to automatically all get in, but I just do not necessarily think it is a requirement in their minds to go to 8. It never has been before.