9 hours ago9 hr Administrator No. The 10 commissioners of the Power 4 and Group of 6 (G6) conferences, and the Notre Dame Athletic Director, must decide by January 23, 2026, whether to expand the College Football (CFB) Playoff (PO) field. If no agreement on expansion is reached by the 23rd, the 2026-27 PO format will remain the same; 12 teams seeded as ranked. Four Power ...What to Know About Upcoming Playoff Changes Two Sites: FishDuck and the Our Beloved Ducks forum, The only "Forum with Decorum!" And All-Volunteer? What a wonderful community of Duck fans!
6 hours ago6 hr Moderator No. Thanks Jon for today's article which should bring a great deal of discussion! Too bad that the NCAA doesn't run the CFP like it does for all other levels. Home games for the first two rounds would be a vast improvement for fans and a reward for teams with a good record. Making a highly ranked team travel thousands of miles cross country to a Bowl site is absurd for the early rounds. Home games this year was a good beginning.I appreciate your contributions and knowledge to OBD Forum. Thanks!
3 hours ago3 hr Administrator No. Jon...you make a great point about how much MORE money the 24 team format will provide for all. I dislike the bye weeks for the better seeds, and wonder if we shouldn't just go to 32 teams and be done with it? Home games for the higher seeds until the semi-finals? (That would be three home playoff games for those advancing that far)My preference is for 16 teams, but the SEC wants the Playoff committee to decide most of the participants, thus the B1G will get hosed.My Duck-Buddies, I appreciate Jon giving us a short summary of the Playoff options that the commissioners will be deciding upon soon, and invite your thoughts... Mr. FishDuck
2 hours ago2 hr Moderator No. I'd prefer a sixteen team playoff with a sixteen team NIT playoff. Dan's format for home games and schedule that ends around New Year's Day. I'd also suggest that first round losers be eligible for bowl games if those still end up being a thing. I think an NIT tournament would be cool so the rest of the country could be included in the fun and not just be for the same ten teams every year with a few sacrificial lambs thrown in.
1 hour ago1 hr Moderator No. Sixteen is about the maximum that most college football fans would want to see. Indiana vs. USC, Utah vs. Ohio State, Texas Tech vs. Texas, etc. would all be worth watching. Watching teams ranked lower than 16 would be like a mid-tier bowl game. Especially the way the SEC teams were falsely inflated this season.
1 hour ago1 hr No. 1 hour ago, The Kamikaze Kid said:I'd prefer a sixteen team playoff with a sixteen team NIT playoff. Dan's format for home games and schedule that ends around New Year's Day. I'd also suggest that first round losers be eligible for bowl games if those still end up being a thing. I think an NIT tournament would be cool so the rest of the country could be included in the fun and not just be for the same ten teams every year with a few sacrificial lambs thrown in.It could also be fun that if teams lose in the playoff they have a losers bracket! The losers of each round of the main playoff get seeded into the following rounds of the losers bracket. That wouldn't happen at all but it could be amusing for sure.
25 minutes ago25 min Moderator No. 45 minutes ago, David Marsh said:It could also be fun that if teams lose in the playoff they have a losers bracket! The losers of each round of the main playoff get seeded into the following rounds of the losers bracket.That wouldn't happen at all but it could be amusing for sure.The teams in the losers bracket would then have to play each other in the most humiliating bowl games like the New Mexico Bowl, Idaho Potatoes Bowl or the Dirty Myrtle Bowl.
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