Swifties (Jonathan Swifties that is) Rejoice! A Yahoo is the Voice of 16-Team Playoff Sanity.

[Jon Joseph]

 

One of the Big Network's college football go-to folks, Ross Dellenger of Yahoo Sports, is a voice of 16-team playoff reason amidst the 'This Will Kill the Sport!' insanity. 

 

 

A 16-team College Football Playoff wouldn't be catastrophic; it would fix things

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The worst part of the 12-team playoff is the automatic byes for the top four conference champions.

 

This article notes that as part of the 16-team playoff, the flex-week playoff play-in games are coming. These games will eliminate the stand-alone conference champ games, although one versus two may still be played at a neutral site, and end the season one week earlier. 

 

The play-in format is expected to bring in more money than one stand-alone conference champ game. 

 

Last season, OBD would have played Penn State for the title, possibly in Autzen, with Iowa visiting Indiana, and Illinois visiting Ohio State. NO rematch regular season games would have been played in 2024.

 

The B1G's first and second-place teams would play one another, with both guaranteed one of the conference's four playoff bids. Three plays six and four plays five for the other two spots.

 

Mega-conference 'hit and miss' top opponents scheduling, and every CFB metric supports a 4-4-2-2-1-3 format. 

 

[30Duck]

This format makes perfect sense, is that the problem?

 

[Charles Fischer]

I hate the play-in games...hate them.  I just KNOW in the future that Oregon will face a team in conference final of No. 1 vs. No. 2, (Like Ohio State)  that the Ducks have already played before during the regular season schedule...and then there will be a good chance of playing them again, a third time in the playoff? 

 

So THIS is progress?

 

 

[GeotechDuck]

This makes too much sense, so it will never happen. 

[30Duck]

On 5/13/2025 at 12:42 PM, Charles Fischer said:

I hate the play-in games...hate them. 

I'm with ya! Oregon went UNDEFEATED during the regular season, but had to win the conference championship game? They did, over Penn State, because Michigan beat osu2. Oregon wins the CCG, then gets screwed in the CFP, meanwhile PSU and osu2 make out like bandits, before PSU trips up. 

 

In "March Madness" the conference tournament works, if somehow a lower ranked team wins, they get a trophy, but probably a lower seed than the regular season champ gets as an at large selection. People say they don't watch college basketball much until March, but the regular season means more than football's does.