CFB Playoff likely to announce expansion.
I love pretty much everything about this.
- This gives basically every deserving team a shot. Any at large team in a stacked division will get in, and guarantees a group of 5 spot.
-Being in the top 4 still matters, as it gives you a crucial bye week. So that alleviates the "regular season won't matter now" concern.
-This will lead to more competitive semifinals. We seem to have a lot of bad semifinal games because they almost never actually pick the 4 best teams, they pick the 4 best resumes. Now, the teams that are playing their best football at the end of year will advance and schools that usually have pretty fraudulent records and get blown out in the semis like Oklahoma or Notre Dame might not make it that far.
-SO many more games will matter. As it stands, pretty much any game played by a team outside the top 6 or 7 really holds little to no significance in the playoff picture. Now? A game in the last week by two teams ranked just outside the top 10 could be massive for those last at large spots. So many more teams will still have something to play for down the stretch.
I've always thought it would expand to 8 or 16, but 12 really is kinda brilliant and this proposed system would really solve so many issues with both the current system and proposed expansion. Can't wait for this to be live.