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1. How many teams should make the College Football Playoff?
2. At this amount, should spots be reserved for smaller conference teams? If so how many?
3. Should Power 5 conference champions be guaranteed a spot?
I think the College Football Playoffs should be like the NCAA Men's Basketballs March Madness Tournament where the winner of each D1 conference no matter what sized school, gets an opportunity at going to the championship. Yes, spots should be reserved for smaller conference teams. It should be however many small conferences there are. If the winner of each conference went into the tournament and it was like march madness, I think football fans would really enjoy. I don't think Power 5 conference champions should be guaranteed a spot because it takes away from small school's opportunity who can be even better than a Power 5 team. I think the college football tournament is rigged and should be altered in many ways.
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DeleteI believe the NCAA football playoffs should be expanded a bit more. To viewers who are unfamiliar with the format, it could be seen as confusing and unfair because of how limited the entry is. I believe the 8-team format proposed by former NFL lineman Joe Thomas and SB Nation's Bill Connelly is a good format. It allows for more teams to be involved in the tournament, while being selective, quick, and keeping the intensity. This could also spark some upsets as well as more inclusiveness. I believe some small conference teams should be allowed a spot to play. However, if the tournament becomes too big, it will drag out and some viewers will quickly become uninterested. I do not believe Power 5 conference champions should be guaranteed because it is less inclusive and does not allow for some teams to have a chance at a spot. Having a wider tournament while keeping viewers interested is the perfect balance for the college football tournament and having an 8 team playoff is the way to go about having that.
ReplyDeleteI think the NCAA college football playoffs are fine as they are. By the time the season ends there are clearly around 4 powerhouse teams that are clearly ahead of everyone else. Also it would be very hard to have more teams in the playoffs because it is hard to play many games back to back. Teams need rest in between games, at least one week. Also having fewer teams in the playoffs makes in season games more interesting and exciting. This way every game counts. Secondly, I do not think there needs to be a revision in the conferences. I think college football is entertaining enough how it is and shrinking conferences will just make everything more confusing. Lastly, no one should be guaranteed a spot. Based on how the season goes, and who beats who, decisions can be made to make sure we get the more exciting playoffs as possible.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the College Football Playoff should be expanded and doubled to include eight teams. This serves two direct purposes. The first being that in the three years of this playoff, there has always been controversy over who the top four teams are. Even though the committee uses statistics and rankings to pick the four, at the end of the day, it is all subjective. With an eight team playoff, there will be less debate over the 8 vs. 9 teams as opposed to the 4 vs. 5 that currently exists. The second reason is that having two extra games in this playoff tournament will generate significant more money for the NCAA and the schools. I do not think that smaller conferences should have a direct path to the championship because they do not play against as difficult teams in the regular season and would be overpowered by the stronger teams. In order for these teams to have a direct bid, the tournament would have to expanded much larger, with bye weeks for the better teams, but this would take way too long, and you can only have so many games in a football season. It’s not like basketball where you can play three to four games in one week. Power 5 conference champions should not be guaranteed a spot because it will deter from a smaller school who could have the same ability.
ReplyDeleteI think the NCAA football playoffs are good with four teams. This would make it fair for the best teams to play the other best teams, and if there were smaller conference teams, they just wouldn't live up to the potential to play the D1 teams. If there were spots reserved for smaller conference teams to play the other better teams it would just be unfair unless the two best small conference teams played each other.
ReplyDeleteThe current setup of the College Football Playoff is very much in beta. It is coming into its fifth year this coming season. Each year there are debates on who should and should not make the playoff, and there are always disagreements from the public in reaction to the decision of the Playoff Committee. While I feel there should be more than the current amount of teams in the College Football Playoff, this will not end the debate of which team should be left off the bracket, only expand it. Teams that should have an automatic ticket to the playoff are all of the power 5 conference teams. In the current state in the system, conference winners in the most elite conferences are still left out of the tournament. Most recently in the past two seasons, Penn State and Ohio State, winners of the Big Ten Conference, were both left out after winning their conference. There are many other cases of this, and people have questioned the meaning of winning their Power 5 conference, after being left out of the playoffs. Aside from the Power 5, I feel three of the most deserving teams in the league should be selected to the playoff. This keeps it exclusive, yet doubles the size of the playoff. For cases such as UCF in this past season, they should attempt to play higher ranked teams, making their case for being selected to the College Football Playoff stronger. The clean format of an 8 team playoff for the time being would allow for more teams to participate in the playoff, giving teams like Alabama and Clemson a run for their money.
ReplyDeleteI can understand arguments for both a four-team and eight-team tournament for the College Football Playoff. An eight-team tournament would not only spike revenue, interest, and ratings, it could also give NFL teams more information on some of the top talents, at the highest level of competition. A four-team tournament has its benefits as well. The College Football Playoff has largely been seen as a success, and changing it in its already nascent state could be risky. A four-team tournament also calls for four less games to be played overall, preserving the health of the players and potentially serving them better down the road. If I had to give my personal stance on this topic, it would be to indeed expand to an eight team field, in hopes of creating a national phenomenon, to the level of March Madness, which annually generates close to one billion dollars.
ReplyDeleteI believe largely that the CFB should be reserved for the best teams, not the teams that have beat down on weaker competition in smaller conferences. There is a balance to this as well, if a team goes undefeated and has proved themselves against a few ranked teams I do believe they deserve a look. However if you have only really played against very weak competition, I don't think you have proved enough to make it on the biggest stage. I think one way they can avoid "snubbing" teams in weaker conferences is by putting those teams in bowl games against harder competition at the end of the season. This will be a final test, that can show the committee why they feel they should be in the playoffs.
Yes, Power 5 champions should be guaranteed a spot in the playoffs. Although in a perfect world it would be ideal to get the best eight teams in the country in the playoffs, I believe to avoid scandals and calls for corruption it would be best to simply map out the qualifications for entering the tournament.
I thing that more needs to be done to expand the sport of College Football. In doing so, I think that restructuring the Playoffs would be a great idea. It is clear that people feel uncertain about who the true national champion is. By potentially expanding the playoffs to 8 or 10 teams, I think significantly more attention would be drawn to college football. One of the reasons why March madness is so popular is because you get to see teams from several different conferences. So, by only allowing power 5 conference champions in the playoffs, it is not necessarily a true testament to who the National Champion is. Spots should be reserved for smaller conference teams. It is no doubt that majority of talent in college football falls in the Pac 5. However, I think that smaller conference teams will definitely make the Playoffs more interesting. I do also think that these smaller conference teams deserve a chance to compete for the National Championship. I do not think that power 5 conference champions should be guaranteed a spot. The committee should choose broaden from the pac 12, and consider choosing talented smaller conferenced teams in the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with Sam and that I think that the football league should be like NCAA Men's Basketballs March Madness Tournament. I like how the winner of each D1 conference, doesn't depend on the size of school, gets to play in the bracket for the win. I think that this method is a good way to incorporate the best teams in each conference and creates a bigger pool of game. Adding more teams will expand the college football conference and will draw more people into watching. Expanding this league of play will create more money, March Madness earns about 1 billion dollars a year just from the couple of weeks of playing. Expanding college footballs will draw more attention and will get more fans. By having spots for smaller conference football teams will also get more fans to watch because generally smaller conference football teams don't make the playoffs and eliminates their abilities. But then I don't think that Power 5 conference champions should have reserved spots, a majority of football talent is within the top 5 which means that the teams can get a spot on their own.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely like to see the College Football Playoffs expanded to more teams. I think ideally if they could find a way to make each conference championship winner a contestant in the CFB playoffs that'd be perfect, however there are so many D1 conferences it would be impossible to include all winners and play a bracket style tournament in the limited amount of time there is during the season. I think if there was 5 or 9 teams, where there was one play-in game for the 4 seed or 8 seed it would be even more interesting. I would like to see power 5 conference champions guaranteed spots int he playoffs since their conferences are the toughest in D1 football, however if this was done I think there should definitely be at-large bids for teams that are not in the conferences so teams like UCF who went undefeated this year have the chance to enter the tournament. The only issue i see with this is the possibility of more recruiting power going to the power 5 conference schools, however, if the college football playoffs are meant to contain the best teams, this seems like the best way to do so.
ReplyDeleteI think expanding the number of teams for college football would be a great idea. There should be 8 teams that could participate in the Playoffs. I think there would be on more attention on the game of college football which can bring in more viewers and money for the sport and colleges. March Madness is the biggest college sport tournament. From each conference, there are multiple teams for which fans can vote for and bet on in friendly brackets. It should not just be the big teams every year as there should be spots for smaller conference teams to have a chance at the title. The smaller teams will change up the games as they deserve the opportunity to challenge the bigger teams. I do not think that teams from the Power 5 conference should be ensured a spot. The smaller schools, who are better than the Power 5 teams, should have an opportunity to play. This would reduce corruption and cheating within the sport.
ReplyDeleteI think their should still be 4 teams in the college football playoff because football is very time consuming and if there were more teams in the college playoff, I think the games will be not as entertaining to watch. All sports besides football have long seasons that can consist of 30-80 games. Football on the other hand only plays 12-16 games a season. Why would they make the college playoff longer and harder for these athletes if it's hard enough. I don't think spots should be reserved for smaller conference teams because smaller conference teams tend to be worse than big conference teams. Teams from the SEC, ACC, and Big 10 are clearly better, why should smaller conferences be allowed a free ticket to the college playoff. Although i don't agree with this, I think UCF last year should've been in the college playoff last year because they were undefeated. But if a team came from the same conference as them and only lost 1 games, I don't think they deserve a shot at the college playoff. I think Power 5 conferences champions should be guaranteed a spot because they proved they're the best team in the conference. The power 5 are the best conferences in the nation and I think if you win one of the conferences, you should be considered as one of the best college football teams in the nation.
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ReplyDeleteI feel that expanding the college football playoff is a very good idea. Expanding the playoff to 8 teams would make the playoff more interesting and exciting. Even though changing up the amount of teams getting into the playoffs would be a change in the history of the sport it would overall be a good idea. I feel that no spots should be reserved for smaller conference teams because I feel the specific schools should gain the spots with talent. It would be unfair if any teams got reserved a spot. I do not feel any power 5 conference teams should be guaranteed a spot because it should be left to the other teams who earn the spots.
ReplyDeleteI think it would be cool if the college playoffs added more teams so more of the lower schools could make it in. football is one of the sports that doesn't have many games so i don't think the fans would be opposed to more games. They could also make it more exciting with upsets, just like march madness in ncaa basketball. Not everyone watches college football but most people watch college basketball come march. I think if they made the playoffs more exciting they would get more viewers and it would benefit everyone.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the playoffs shouldn't change the amount of teams they currently have. I think four is a good starter for the finale, one team from each region (west, east, etc.). Having four teams would make it fair for the best teams, of each region, to play the other best teams, of each region. I also believe that smaller conferences shouldn't have a direct path to the championship because by doing this they wouldn't play against as difficult teams in the regular season and that would just be unfair to the rest of the teams. Personally, I don't think Power 5 should be guarnteed a spot in the championship. Like I was said before, it would probably be unfair to other teams.
ReplyDelete1. How many teams should make the College Football Playoff?
ReplyDeleteI think about 16-18 teams should make it.
2. At this amount, should spots be reserved for smaller conference teams? If so how many?
i think that the division winner for all 10 divisions should get in and then the best from there
3. Should Power 5 conference champions be guaranteed a spot?
yes
I think they should definitely change the number of teams which make the college football playoffs. I believe they should look in to having all the conference champions make the playoffs along with a few other wild cards. This should allow for teams who have a worse record due to the strength of their schedule still make the playoff while also the teams who dominated their conference no matter how weak it is. I think one or two spots should be saved for smaller conference winners. If a team dominates a smaller conference, that shouldn't be put against them. I believe all the power 5 conference champs should be in the playoffs along with some smaller conference champs. All these teams worked hard to win there conference and they deserve a chance to compete in the playoffs.
ReplyDeleteI think the college football playoff should be at least 8 teams, maybe more. Similar to March Madness, the football playoff could feature 64 teams in a bracket style, which most fans enjoy. This would not detract from smaller conferences, as upsets are always possible. I know I would love to see a small team beat a Power 5 conference. They should allow conference champions an automatic bid, and then choose the remaining spots based on record and qualifications. The only concern would be the complete abandonment of bowl games if this occurred, but I do believe a March Madness -style football tournament would be a great success.
ReplyDeleteCollege football playoffs should consist of eight teams because it will give more teams the chance to compete in the post season. As it is now good teams might not make the playoffs when they really should. They might have an undefeated record but a team in a better conference that has lost a game or two will still probably make they playoffs over them.
ReplyDeleteI think the college football playoffs should be 12 teams like the NFL. This allows for more involvement of the NCAA and allows for teams to show their talented and not be strictly based off the seeding of officials. 12 teams would allow there to be less controversy with who makes it in and who doesn't. I don't think spots should be reserved for smaller conference teams, they should be for the top 12 teams in the country. Bowl games should be used or smaller championship style events should be held for smaller conference teams. I don't think they should ever be guaranteed. If there was more spots, like there is in March Madness, then yes but since there are still only 12 spots, a team shouldn't be penalized if they have a better conference than another team. the Big 10, hypothetically, could be a weak conference one year but the PAC 12 could be really strong. This shouldn't mean that the Big 10 champs should get a spot over the 3rd best PAC 12 team if the other team has out preformed them over the entire year.
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