Seems like the B1G talking point this off-season is going to be centered on getting an expanded playoff for the 2027 season.

Much consternation has been made of Petiti being dead set on getting 24 teams, and a fixed number going to each conference. The SEC wants 16, and thought going to 9 conference games was the key to getting there.

I know how most SEC fans feel, they feel like Sankey is getting pushed around. But in all reality, the SEC has gotten the benefit of the doubt with multiple years in the BCS, four team, and now twelve team eras. There were two all SEC BCS Title games, and one in the four team. The SEC got almost half the field of a twelve team field, and failed to beat another P4 team outside of each other.

I know this is a tired question, but I would like to hear from my Duck friends if 24 is too big, or if 16 is good enough with a proposed automatics for each conference. Also, what to do with the G6 and Notre Dame. It's going to be a long wait till we get our football fix, but there's a lot going on right now to keep some topics alive.

It may be a tired question to some, but these are important questions about the Playoffs.

In the end, what the B1G wants is less SEC bias by the committee, and we can't count on that. So the less input by the committee, and more that is already agreed upon up front...the better.

Perhaps this is Pettiti's way of asking for the world, and getting compromises? SEC gives up committee power, and B1G agrees to 16 teams?

3 hours ago, GatOrlando said:

Seems like the B1G talking point this off-season is going to be centered on getting an expanded playoff for the 2027 season.

Much consternation has been made of Petiti being dead set on getting 24 teams, and a fixed number going to each conference. The SEC wants 16, and thought going to 9 conference games was the key to getting there.

I know how most SEC fans feel, they feel like Sankey is getting pushed around. But in all reality, the SEC has gotten the benefit of the doubt with multiple years in the BCS, four team, and now twelve team eras. There were two all SEC BCS Title games, and one in the four team. The SEC got almost half the field of a twelve team field, and failed to beat another P4 team outside of each other.

I know this is a tired question, but I would like to hear from my Duck friends if 24 is too big, or if 16 is good enough with a proposed automatics for each conference. Also, what to do with the G6 and Notre Dame. It's going to be a long wait till we get our football fix, but there's a lot going on right now to keep some topics alive.

Thanks, Gat. Petitti's PO format proposal no longer includes automatic qualifiers. The season would begin in Week Zero. There would be no conference champ games played.

Petitti proposes a 16-team field in 2027-28 and 2028-29, with the field going to 24 teams in 2029-30, which just happens to be 😁 the first year of the Big Ten's new media deal.

The B1G's current media deal will be the first P4 conference deal to expire and be renegotiated. The B12 deal runs through 2030-31. The SEC's deal runs through 2033-34. The ACC's deal runs through 2036.

Petitti has the B1G perfectly positioned. (Not to be confused with Larry Scott having the Pac-12 perfectly positioned. 🤬)

While it hasn't to date been given the antitrust green light, streaming service Venu, owned 50/50 by Fox and Disney/ESPN, signals an intent of the two to cooperate on the media front.

Fox owns 60% of the Big Ten Network, so it will be the B1G's 'go-to' network. I'm hoping that, come 2030, ESPN will become a Big Ten broadcast partner. No entity supports CFB more than ESPN, and I think ESPN being a B1G and SEC broadcast partner will lead to agreement on an expanded playoff format.

I like 24-teams, no AQs, top 8 ranked teams with a short 1st round bye, and at least the 1st and 2nd rounds played on campus, as part of Petitti's format. And the PO starts and finishes two weeks earlier than today.

If the NCAA managed the FBS CFB playoff, we'd already be at 24 teams.

CFB Needs the Dues! The money that will rain down from a 24-team field with the PO to start and finish two weeks sooner than today. 🤑

I don't really care since I get my Que sera sera advice from Doris Day (whatever will be will be).

However, the more teams you add, the more pressure you put on coaches to make the playoffs. In a 16 or 24 team field, what is the timeline for firing if you don't make it over a certain year span.

The Romans may have nothing on us with this new spectator sport.