(12-12-2019 10:38 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(12-12-2019 10:31 AM)ken d Wrote:  

(12-12-2019 10:25 AM)JRsec Wrote:  

(12-12-2019 09:38 AM)ken d Wrote:  I'm thinking that if Delany is pondering both 16 team conferences and an 8 team playoff he is envisioning four power conferences with the first round of the playoff including the 8 P4 division winners.

This presupposes a breakaway of the 4 surviving P conferences where each conferences 2 division winners comprise the 8 team playoff. And it also presupposes that the networks pay those conferences significantly more money than their CCG's get right now in order to accomplish their acquiescence in the matter.

IMO, this is the only pathway to the 8 team CFP model because it does not hamper, but enhances the odds that any team makes it in thereby paving the way for the move to 16 without negatively impacting the usual suspects in each existing conference. And because it makes it clear to each conference that they will be involved every year which is the buy in for the less dominant conferences.

I simply don't see the SEC or Big 10 giving up their CCG's unless they know they get two in and the money is better.

Now whether that winds up being 4 champs and 4 at large, or 8 division champs is a different matter.

Pretty much. Or some divisionless conference scheduling model in which the top two teams from each conference get in. Perhaps the top teams from each conference play the second teams from another conference in the first round, so it's possible for a single conference to have two teams in the semifinals.

I would be good with going divisionless and taking the two top teams and I particularly like having each conferences #2 play someone else's #1. I guess the only rub I would have with what the networks are likely to suggest, is that I would prefer seeing those first round games played at the home stadium of the higher ranked school instead of adding a third major travel expense to the fans by utilizing only the bowls. Having the semis and finals in the bowls isn't optimal now, but it is established. Add a third trip to it and the attendance at the quarter finals would be dismal. Put it in a home venue for the higher ranked school and you have a winner. And it affords regional access to some round of the playoffs for college football fans in general.

Schools want conference championships and they want to control as much money as they can. CCGs going away are about as likely as a 32 team tournament in football.