2026 College Football Chatter

[Simpleton]

The NFL has 14 teams in a playoff, there's a significant difference between that and 24.

I assume the top 8 will get byes, which means without a bye you need to win 5 games to win it all, with a bye you need to win 4, which is an extra game than the NFL playoff format.

I'm just not even sure what the point of all of this is besides mindless profit chasing. 16 of the 24 teams will basically have to play 40% of a current college season to win the whole thing, so how many games are they playing before the playoff?

Sure as shit can't be 12 unless you want to see a bunch of slop shit in the early rounds because teams are down 25% of their roster. Either that or they're resting guys for 2-3 games at the end of the regular season.

This is just another step in college football's inevitable crash as it tries to mimic the NFL.

 

[Genghis Khan]

Nah.... No more taking an entire month of dead time from November to late December like they used to, is all.

You can play your playoffs in December into January and you're good to go.

College Football playoff games during Xmas week when I'm already off work?

YES PLEASE.

But how will they study for finals?

 

[Texas Ace]

The NFL has 14 teams in a playoff, there's a significant difference between that and 24.

Right, but that's 14 teams in a 32 team league -- that's almost half the league right there.

So if you look at the total number of FBS participants, 24 isn't really isn't as much overkill as some are making it out to be.

Again, if it were up to me I would go with 16, but I don't hate 24.