What the New 12 Team Playoff System Has Taught us in Year One
What the New 12 Team Playoff System Has Taught us in Year One
By Jace Hinton January 14, 2025 03:00
Blowouts, Close games, missed calls and upsets. This first year of the college football playoff has had it all this year. However, there are a few things that need to change if the playoff is to continue as is.
The first thing that needs to change is that the first round byes have to go away. Not one of the teams who had a first round bye are still playing in the playoff. Instead of having the first round bye you have a system of the #1 plays the #12 seed, #2 plays the #11 seed. Since it seems that the top four seed getting the bye week did not benefit them so since that did not go well might as well get rid of the bye week. Sticking with seeding the group of five champions has to be the number five seed unless they play 3 out of conference games against top ranked teams and win two out of three or all three that is the only group of five teams chance of being a top four team.
The second change that needs to be made is that deeper dives need to be taken into a teams resume. Clemson was put into the playoff just because they won the ACC as promised they got an automatic bid but SMU falling all the way to eleven was something that came as a shock since they had suffered that loss to Clemson after the phenomenal season that SMU had was not needed. Boise State is the next team we are going to talk about. Their best win of the season was UNLV twice then there is the “Oh they lost to Oregon” yeah well Oregon showed that they were not all that good now did they. Ohio State lost to Oregon and Ohio State was not a top four team but Boise was ? Nonsense there needs to be a deeper dive into the team's resumes as soon as possible. Also the only thing conference championships should affect is just who gets the automatic bid and not seeding as much. In the case of SMU who had a better resume than Boise there was no reason for Boise to be seeded as high as they were.
The last thing that could possibly make a change is the second round being home games if they do not get rid of the first round bye. The second round if the first round byes are not eliminated should also be home games for the top four seeds as they have a way to make some money for the schools to generate revenue off of home games for the school plus they get the reward of a home game on top of the first round bye. Now I also understand we need to keep the bowl games so then we take it back to any teams being asked to play in the major New Year's Six bowls but now instead of that we get rid of the first round bowl game and we are off to the races of keeping the NY6 bowl games.
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