CFB Playoffs Expansion

[Mike in Horseheads]

After one successful year at a 12 team playoff of course now they want to expand.  Most want a 5 champs + 11 at large but today I see OSU thinks the big 10 "deserves" 4 automatic bids.  I personally don't think anyone deserves a spot after the champs but thought I'd throw it out to you guys.

[US Egg]

Pretty much a “my **** don’t stink” remark by Day.
 

With the way CFB is going it’d seem inevitable that 3-4 teams from the B10 and SEC every year will be in the playoffs with a 16 team format. But even with that, tend to think there’ll few surprises when it gets down to the Final Four most seasons. I hope it doesn’t go to 16.

[Simon]

I'll settle for nothing less than a 64 team bracket!

[GunnerBill]

I think the format this year worked fine. Let's stick with that a bit before we start talking about changes. Was one of the best college football seasons in my memory. 

[FireChans]

4 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

I think the format this year worked fine. Let's stick with that a bit before we start talking about changes. Was one of the best college football seasons in my memory. 

Well, Ohio State won. That alone knocks it down 100 pegs.

[Kirby Jackson]

I like the format now. I liked the tweak to the teams hosting too. This feels like the right number to me. Once you get beyond 12, it would be difficult to see any team below that running the table against that competition.
 

I think that’s the underrated part. Teams that have 3 losses (or even 2 in some cases) that would be ranked like 14 are inconsistent. They likely lost at least 2 of those games to good teams. They probably play like 3 good teams a year. (I’m considering top 15 teams good). Are we supposed to believe that those teams would, go on the road, and then to neutral sites and be 3-0 vs. those quality of teams? It feels like a stretch. As an Ohio State fan, I apply the Wisconsin/Iowa eye test to it. Those are the type of teams over the last 15 years that would have qualified for an expanded playoff like this. Was it possible that 2014 Wisconsin or 2023 Iowa to win 3 games against the best teams in the country? Of course not!! Those teams would have been murdered. 12 is a good number and we still enter the playoff with a few teams that have zero chance at a title (Boise, Indiana, ASU, SMU). 

[billsfan89]

I think the "sweet spot" for the CFBP is 6 teams. It allows for the top 2 ranked teams to really have a good incentive to get a bye and a home playoff game to get into the National Championship while still having a wide enough field where you don't feel like no enough teams make it.