AQ means that any school can meet whatever metric is used to automatically qualify them for a playoff spot. And the SEC can’t have that. Subjective, perception driven metrics only.
Let’s be clear about the cfp. This is about money.
Likely scenario:
I see them going to an 12 schools format:
sec and big 10 get four each, BIG12 and ACC get one each with another with highest rank (or one if PAC stays alive) and the best G5 get one.
This is going to get ugly, very ugly.
SEC wants an 8 team playoff with no AQs so they can have 7 SEC and 1 BIG in the playoff and they have 16 votes. The BIG wants a 12 team playoff with 6 AQs - each P5 champ and top G5, 16 votes. 2025 gonna be fun watching that pissing contest
My apologies to Twinmom and all the other ladies on this board but as the mother of boys she knows what I’m talking about.
If it is only the SEC in the playoffs, how long is that sustainable and profitable. That is, who wants to see a semi-pro/minor league playoff?
If my team has no chance, then screw them. I ain’t watching.
Does March madness not make enough money to make it at least a partial model for how to move forward.
If i remember correctly, one reason they wanted to expand playoffs to 12 (with top 6 conference champs) is to include different schools. One of the reasons cited was the decline in ratings. People got tired on the same schools.
I am pretty sure something along those lines will be implemented in the renewal.
If ESPN markets it like the Super Bowl, perception becomes reality
Great point. Here are some numbers. Please notice Oregon’s numbers.
This is including BCS:
Oregon’s numbers are truly impressive.
Sec won’t get what they want as long as the big 10 is on the side of it
The expanded CFP w/ no-AQs is not going to be filled up with only SEC teams. Y’all need to get a grip. SEC barely had 6 teams finish in the CFP Top 25 last year.
Just because Sankey says stuff doesn’t mean he’s gonna make the rules. They get their votes.
12 team playoffs were proposed last year with some Autos (at least p5 champs) and was shot down by ACC, BigTen, and Pac12.
My theory is that he really went out on a limb last year with a bunch of presidents and ADs who thought his plan was way too generous to non-SEC schools. So how he has to be bad cop.
What’s kind of weird to me is that people are saying this is just Sankey’s first step, and that other things Sankey wants are (a) to end or reduce NCAA tourney autobids (reportedly he said something to this effect) and (b) get some sort of anti-trust protection for top tier college football. All of this being a goal for a “new division one” with 40-60 teams in and everybody else out.
I cannot imagine a worse way to convince non-SEC conferences to drop autobids from the tourney than to suggest that they are expendable in the college football playoff. And I cannot imagine a worse way to try to convince congress to grant anti-trust exemption than to say than to openly talk about how the big boys need to lock the little boys out.
So the thing that makes the most sense to me is that he’s trying to appease his people by showing that he’s fighting for their interests first and foremost. Also maybe some overton window-moving. Talk about getting rid of autobids so that he can get his teams into the bye weeks instead of that being reserved for conference champions. Talk about getting rid of autobids to change it to “Top 20 conference champions” instead of every conference champion. But mostly I think it’s constituency-management with his universities.
That turned out to be an even worse own-goal by the ACC and Pac-12 than previously supposed.
It would be too much to ask of the greedy bastards if they could just have a real playoff and give every conference champion an auto bid then have up to 6 at larges. Dead Horse I know. The nobody wants to see Bowling Green play Alabama argument is garbage, just look at the Basketball tournament. Handing out byes and seeding would be all you’d need a committee for. Of course this model doesn’t keep the money where they want it. I doubt we’ll ever get a true playoff.
– To be fair, the SEC is 14-5 in playoff games.
– The SEC is the only conference with a winning playoff record, and nearly half of its losses (2) were to other SEC teams.
– The SEC is the only conference with multiple CFP-era national champions (3 – each of whom won in the past three years).
– The SEC has won over half of the CFP-era national championships
The SEC’s reputation as the best football conference is far more than just “perception”.
You mean Alabama.
– The SEC is the only conference with multiple CFP-era national champions (3 – each of whom won in the past three years).
The current national champion is Georgia, not Alabama.
LSU won in 2019.
The SEC is the most balanced conference with three national champions. No other conference has more than one national champion in the CFP-era.
Your point would be true for the ACC (Clemson) or Big 10 (Ohio State), but not for the SEC.
Yeah, I understand that they’re good at football. I also understand that they want as many SEC teams in the playoff as possible to maximize revenue for the conference so they do everything they can to change the rules so they are more likely to field more teams in more postseason games.
Otherwise it would make zero sense to gather all the programs with the most resources in one conference and then pass rules that allow those programs to literally pay players unlimited monies which will inevitably lead to a monopoly on talent.
Fans don’t even realize their favorite sport is being turned into a scripted dog and pony show for ratings and ad revenue right in front of their faces.