Ryan Day pushing for 4 automatic qualifying spots for the Big Ten in a 16-team CFP format

[Bowlmania]

He makes a good argument (see link below). I don’t believe, though, that the SEC also deserves 4 AQs. The Big Ten owned the SEC in football last season. That’s a basketball conference now!

Go Hoosiers!

Day: Big Ten deserves 4 automatic spots in CFP

Ohio State coach Ryan Day would like to see future College Football Playoff models include at least four automatic qualifying spots for the expanded Big Ten.

www.espn.com

 

[82hoosier]

It’s easy to forget that this whole college playoff thing was to prevent a pretender like Brigham Young University from winning a national championship without defeating a single team with a winning record. And then there wasJoe Paterno‘s Penn State squad that was undefeated with Franco Harris and Lydell Mitchell in the backfield. And yet they could not get into a championship game.

Do they really need automatic qualifying spots in order to secure the best team in the country in a 16-team tournament?

 

[kmathum]

It’s easy to forget that this whole college playoff thing was to prevent a pretender like Brigham Young University from winning a national championship without defeating a single team with a winning record. And then there wasJoe Paterno‘s Penn State squad that was undefeated with Franco Harris and Lydell Mitchell in the backfield. And yet they could not get into a championship game.

Do they really need automatic qualifying spots in order to secure the best team in the country in a 16-team tournament?

i think the playoff was created to make more money

 

[Bowlmania]

Do they really need automatic qualifying spots in order to secure the best team in the country in a 16-team tournament?

Check out the article below. If they expand to 16 teams and go with the 4-4-2-2-1-3 model, it would make for more meaningful games down the stretch, lessen the volume of cupcake OOC scheduling, and reduce the discretion and decision-making of the Selection Committee. Best of all, with less to whine about, maybe it would shut up (or at least tone down) a-holes like Herbstreit and Finebaum.

College Football Playoff expansion would be a good thing — if executed correctly

As college football continues to tinker with its postseason, some solutions seem much more promising than others

sports.yahoo.com

 

[ElMeson]

I have no problem with both the SEC and the Big Ten having 4 teams each but there has to be some kind of scheduling guideline. 1. All conferences go to either 9 or 8 games. The narrative that the SEC is a gauntlet is tiresome and no more tougher than a Big Ten schedule. 2. Whether it’s 8 or 9 conference games, the ooc schedule for each school should consist of at least one power 4 game and no ooc games scheduled past October. It’s a joke when Alabama plays Furman a week before Auburn.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

BIG 4
SEC 4
ACC 1
B12 1

 

[Bowlmania]

BIG 4
SEC 4
ACC 1
B12 1

That would leave too many at-larges. And it would never fly with the ACC and Big 12. They’re already crying about a format that would give them 2 AQs each.

 

[Courtsensetwo]

That would leave too many at-larges. And it would never fly with the ACC and Big 12. They’re already crying about a format that would give them 2 AQs each.

If ACC and B12 are correct, then they will do just fine in the at large category.

 

[Bowlmania]

If ACC and B12 are correct, then they will do just fine in the at large category.

The SEC has the big TV contract with ESPN/ABC. ESPN/ABC, starting with the 2026-2027 season, has exclusive rights to the entirety of the CFP. More at-large slots would mean non-stop lobbying by Herbstreit and all the other SEC shills for as many SEC teams as possible.

 

[rcaulfie]

WGAF what Ryan Day thinks on this or anything else.

 

[Bowlmania]

WGAF what Ryan Day thinks on this or anything else.

I despise OSU as much as the next guy, but Day just won a national championship. He’s got an audience, and deservedly so.

How many Big Ten AQs would you like to see in an expanded CFP?

 

[Walt542]

Check out the article below. If they expand to 16 teams and go with the 4-4-2-2-1-3 model, it would make for more meaningful games down the stretch, lessen the volume of cupcake OOC scheduling, and reduce the discretion and decision-making of the Selection Committee. Best of all, with less to whine about, maybe it would shut up (or at least tone down) a-holes like Herbstreit and Finebaum.

College Football Playoff expansion would be a good thing — if executed correctly

As college football continues to tinker with its postseason, some solutions seem much more promising than others

sports.yahoo.com

Nothing is going to tone down guys like Herbstreit and Finebaum. That is the way they make their living and they will continue to do it to the best of their ability which means gaining attention.

 

[Pazhoosier85]

WGAF what Ryan Day thinks on this or anything else.

His idea is way better than having some stupid committee pick 11 at large spots.

 

[vesuvius13]

No matter what is chosen for the Championship will always have people complaining about the teams not in the championship.