gaining traction.....
Would eliminate CCG.
You mean a 24-team playoff......
Btw, here's what my idea of a 24 team bracket would've looked like in 2023; the last year CFB was at least somewhat normal:
2023 CFP bracket:
(
Team listed first is host)
First Round-
16 Notre Dame (9-3) vs 17 Iowa (10-3)
9 Missouri (10-2) vs 24 Boise State (8-5,
MWC)
12 Oklahoma (10-2) vs 21 SMU (11-2,
AAC)
13 LSU (9-3) vs 20 Oregon State (8-4)
11 Mississippi (10-2) vs 22 Troy (11-2,
Sun Belt)
14 Arizona (9-3) vs 19 North Carolina State (9-3)
10 Penn State (10-2) vs 23 Miami, OH (11-2,
MAC)
15 Louisville (10-3) vs 18 Liberty (13-0,
CUSA)
Second Round-
1 Michigan (13-0,
B10) vs winner 16/17
8 Oregon (11-2) vs winner 9/24
5 Florida State (13-0,
ACC) vs winner 12/21
4 Alabama (12-1,
SEC) vs winner 13/20
6 Georgia (12-1) vs winner 11/22
3 Texas (12-1,
B12) vs winner 14/19
7 Ohio State (11-1) vs winner 10/23
2 Washington (13-0,
P12) vs winner 15/18
Quarterfinals-
Orange Bowl (Miami, FL); potential 1 seed
Rotation of Bowls*; potential 4 seed
Peach Bowl (Atlanta, GA); potential 3 seed
Cotton Bowl (Dallas, TX); potential 2 seed
Semifinals-
Fiesta Bowl (Glendale, AZ)
Sugar Bowl (New Orleans, LA)
National Championship-
Rose Bowl (Pasadena, CA)
*Bowl rotation for potential 4 seed Qtrs matchup:
1st Year Alamo Bowl (San Antonio, TX)
2nd Year Las Vegas Bowl (Las Vegas, NV)
3rd Year Citrus Bowl (Orlando, FL)
4th Year Holiday Bowl (*
moved to San Francisco, CA at Levi Stadium)
P.S. these will be locked in with some tweaks every so often, so that you still try to rebuild some of that tradition of reaching the major bowl game. If you're the 1 seed, you're always trying to win your first game to get to the Orange Bowl, for example. If you're a 3 seed, that means you make the Peach Bowl Quarterfinals every year if you win, etc etc.
The Rose Bowl would go back to being the mecha for CFB hosting the championship game, although I'd listen to arguments with them rotating between the Sugar, Fiesta, Orange and Rose, and I'd also listen to arguments rotating the Orange, Sugar, and Fiesta for that potential 1 seed Qtrs matchup.
But this would be the end of selling the NCG out to the highest bidder like the NFL does.
That way it sort of creates a sense of tradition with the major Bowl games, rather than them just feeling like big, sterile, randomly generated neutral sites each year with lots of corporatization and commercialism slapped on..........
Thoughts?
