(12-07-2022 09:19 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  ... It's one reason why I am not enthused about the 12-team playoff. IMO, the current CFP stays on the "play" side of the risk/reward metric for a top player. But three or four games stretches it, maybe beyond breaking point. Yes, they are all hungry competitors, committed to their team and eager to win a national championship. But then there is the NFL situation.

We're going to find out, one way or the other.

An interesting question here is the extent to which four games stretches it beyond the breaking point for more players than three games, leading to the top four going into the CFP bracket with not only a bye, but also with more of the talent that brought them into the CFP bracket than some of the first round schools.

Time will indeed tell, which is another reason to be dubious about confident predictions about what happens after the next CFP contract.