(04-28-2021 06:13 AM)esayem Wrote:  

(04-27-2021 10:26 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-27-2021 08:24 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  If there’s more money involved when your conference snags an at large bid, the SEC will be interested.

I'm not so sure. IMO, the SEC would be wise to oppose an expansion to 8 unless it is a "straight 8" formula. The SEC could hardly be doing any better than it is right now. An 8-team playoff with P5 autobids would IMO increase the power and status of the other P5 conferences relative to the SEC, with the exception of the B1G, which is also pretty much maxed in terms of relative power.

It would damage the prestige of the SEC CCG, which is clearly the premier CCG, largely because it always has playoff implications. If everyone's CCG is for a playoff spot, the SEC CCG isn't so special anymore.

A 5-1-2 will also increase the power and status of the AAC, as that conference is likely to dominate a G5 auto-spot.

The BCS and CFP have proven the SEC does best when nobody has autobids, when it's based purely on merit. Autobids just allow lesser conferences to gain automatically what they haven't been able to gain through competition. It will result in a "leveling out" of SEC dominance compared to other P5.

Sorry, you mean to tell me that the 14 team SEC wouldn’t want to get three teams in the playoffs? There are seasons where they’d snag both at-large bids, so no, get out of here with that cosmic debris.

An 8-team playoff with auto-bids, but seeded by ranking can offer two SEC teams the potential of another home gate. A 16 team playoff offers the possibility of two more home gates and even more SEC teams being included. Does the $EC not like money all of the sudden? Are they scared they won’t be superior anymore?

Yeah I'm not buying it either. Texas A&M is in last year under a 5-1-2 system.

I would agree they they would likely favor a straight-8 vs. a 5-1-2, but not over the current setup.

I would think that all the other conferences, even the Big 10 who has been left out before, would support an auto-bid for their conference champions.

Everyone stands to make more money under a 5-1-2 system. You have 6 NY6 bowls. Use a 3-year rotation. A bowl is a quarter-final 2 years and a semi 1 on the 3-year rotation. Looking at the ratings of the semi's vs. the go-nowhere NY6 bowls over the past 5 years (semi's pull 2-4x the ratings), you'd have to think that a quarter-final would probably double ratings for those bowls, even if they have to give up their current conference affiliations.