12 Team Playoff Is Here!

[Quaoarsking]

There were a whole lot of people uncomfortable with having a 4 team playoff back in 2014, but then when it actually happened most people loved it. I suspect this will be the same.

Does anyone think the NFL should scale back to just 4 playoff teams? I'm not aware of any

[TUSK]

[Johnson85]

There were a whole lot of people uncomfortable with having a 4 team playoff back in 2014, but then when it actually happened most people loved it. I suspect this will be the same.

Does anyone think the NFL should scale back to just 4 playoff teams? I'm not aware of any

I don't think very many people disliked the idea of a playoff as much as they were worried about the bowl system. Obviously the bowls over time have come to mean less, but I'm not sure if that's because of the playoffs or just because there are so many of them now combined with the fact that bowls moving up and/or down in prestige over time as conference tie-ins got shuffled means that bowl appearances and wins don't maintain significance over time.

I think the 12 team playoff will really hurt interest in bowls. I think the toothpaste is somewhat out of the tube on that one, but this will make it worse. I'm guessing a lot more bowls are going to be essentially made for TV events, with ESPN willing to pay enough to have a bowl to generate content, but fanbases and local businesses no longer willing to shell out to have all the hoopla around them.

[Dawg2003]

The same teams will still win, but it will make the season a little more interesting.

[PGHBulldogBG]

It will make the season more exciting, but most likely Clemson, Bama and Ohio State will win most years. Maybe an occasional LSU or Oklahoma but the way college football is nowadays the top coaches in the game are all at the top schools besides Matt Campbell and he has the big 12 doormat in the top 10 the last couple years. Other than that there isn?t much new happening in the top 10

[99jc]

It will make the season more exciting, but most likely Clemson, Bama and Ohio State will win most years. Maybe an occasional LSU or Oklahoma but the way college football is nowadays the top coaches in the game are all at the top schools besides Matt Campbell and he has the big 12 doormat in the top 10 the last couple years. Other than that there isn?t much new happening in the top 10

this is long overdue....I know this will elevate then end of season games...no longer will an early loss throw a team out of the chance to go all the way. there will be several 2 loss teams that make the playoff also. this is fantastic.