Running CFB playoff thread

Always thought with football a "Flex" week would be great - maybe two weeks before rivalry week - where top teams would play out of conference games against each other. Help clear up the nonsense. Ole Miss - Indiana, BYU - Penn State, Boise - Miami, that sort of thing. I'm kind of glad the SEC eight conference games and walkover weeks at the end of the season are biting them in the ass. Heck, maybe they could schedule it in for the teams not making the conference title games - use that weekend for teams hoping for another "data point." Of course, you know coaches would rather sit home and not worry about falling out of the playoff than playing their way in.

 

A football version of the SEC-Big Ten challenge would be interesting, but you would need to get the conferences involved to keep the week clear. Football schedules are strangely intricate things with a lot of moving parts. If you take out one week of conference games you need to add it back somewhere else, and then it mucks up another set of games, make sure the home-away balance is kept, etc.
Plus, given the state of flux every league is in these days, there's no guarantee that if you announce that now to start in, say, 2027, that half the teams involved will even be in your league by then.

 

Another part of the 16-team playoff: Three-fourths of the field (12 out of 16) will be from the B1G and SEC. Money talks. The rest of college football can scramble to fill the other four spots.

Hell, MileHigh’s hypothetical bracket for this season already has 10 from those two super leagues.

 

There is money to be made

 

That’s honestly a deal. Some of those kids will spend $28 on DoorDash without blinking an eye.

 

I agree. $28 is not extortionate. Also, there's money to be made on the secondary market, too.

 

Max Ralph? Sounds like projectile vomiting.