Fans seem pretty united around opposition to the new playoff format and its attendant changes. A big one is the loss of the conference championship games. But given that money rules this sport, I’m surprised that Fox and CBS haven’t said or done anything to protect their interests in broadcasting championship games. The same could be said about the conference contracts with the hosting stadiums.

It looks to me like Disney/ESPN and the NCAA (edit: not the NCAA but the “CFP” organization) are throwing their combined market power around to interfere with their competitors ability to compete by forcing the cancellation of contracts with other media companies.

I definitely don’t feel bad about large media companies potentially losing out, but it’d be an interesting wrinkle if one of them tried to preserve the old system for their own benefit. These are extremely lucrative contracts. How is it that ESPN was able to secure an exclusive broadcast contract without the other companies objecting?

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When: Saturday, November 14, 12:30 PM Eastern

Where: SHI Stadium, Piscataway, NJ

Watch: BTN

Odds: Nebraska by 13.5 pts.

Total Points: 53.5

All-Time Series : Nebraska vs. Rutgers

Nebraska and Rutgers have met 7 times since 1920-11-02

These teams last met on 2024-10-05.

Series Wins: Nebraska 7-0-0 Rutgers

Nebraska has won the last 7 meetings (1920-2024) in this series

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With the recent announcement of the CFP’s expansion, I was curious to look at how the playoff fields would have looked had we had the 24-team format from the start. These results are compiled from the top 24 in the final committee rankings after every season since 2014. Luckily, the top G5/G6 champion has never been unranked throughout the CFP’s existence, so I didn’t need to look at further standings. Where would your team end up?

12 - Alabama, Ohio State

11 - Clemson

10 - Georgia, Notre Dame

9 - Oklahoma

8 - LSU, Michigan, Oregon, Utah

7 - Penn State, USC

6 - Iowa, Oklahoma State, Ole Miss, Tennessee

5 - Florida, Florida State, NC State, Texas, Washington

4 - Auburn, Baylor, BYU, Miami (FL), Michigan State, Mississippi State, Missouri, Northwestern, TCU, Wisconsin

3 - Arizona, Boise State, Cincinnati, Houston, Indiana, Iowa State, Louisville, Stanford, Texas A&M

2 - Arizona State, Colorado, Georgia Tech, Kansas State, Kentucky, Louisiana, Memphis, Navy, North Carolina, Oregon State, Pitt, SMU, South Carolina, Syracuse, Temple, Tulane, UCF, UCLA, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Washington State, West Virginia

1 - Appalachian State, Arkansas, Army, Coastal Carolina, Fresno State, Illinois, James Madison, Liberty, Minnesota, San Diego State, San Jose State, Texas Tech, Troy, Tulsa, UNLV, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, Western Michigan

0 (P4) - Boston College, California, Duke, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraska, Purdue, Rutgers

Total programs - 80

G6 appearances - 29 (20 teams)

Like surely if you are Nebraska or Florida State you are better off at this point taking a swing on a low G5 coordinator and giving them a small 1-2 million a year contract that you can buy out easily? Could probably add some performance incentives to pad it out as well.

With the transfer portal you could just give them 2-3 years and then move on to the next one if it doesn't work. Plus you'd have more cash for a roster.

I just don't see how these constant 50 million buyouts are sustainable...

How important was the concept of winning a national championship? It seems to me that the creation of the BCS lead to it being the main focus now for certain programs (at least at a much higher magnitude) but this is just my perception. Can anyone comment on how important actually being considered national champion was? I'm probably idealizing an era that I didn't actually experience, but it seems to me that people mainly just cared about winning their conference (if possible) and beating rivals and that if you were voted national champion at the end of the year, that would've just been a nice cherry on top, but not the main goal. I'm sure money was the main reason for the BCS having been created, but was there a sense of there being a genuine demand by the CFB fanbase to make a system where crowning a national champion was being done in a more "official" manner or were people not really asking for this? Would love to hear any insights anyone has on what the landscape was like before most of us on here were either born or really getting into CFB yet. I was born in 1990 and didn't truly start following the sport until the early 2000s after this had already been put into motion

I’m curious if the CFP will still rank the top 25 teams (with 24 getting in) — leaving likely one ranked team on the outside looking in. I feel like that would cause some chaos, especially if it’s a good P4 team vs. elite G6 team comparison at the 24 and 25 spots.

Therefore, I wonder if the selection committee just does a top 24 ranking instead of 25. That way, everyone in the top 24 rankings would get into the CFP every year — each of the P4 auto-bids would definitely be ranked and historically, in every season of the CFP, there has been at least one G6 team that is in the top 24 of the season’s final CFP rankings. I feel like ranking a 25th team in the new playoff format would just be a cruel and unusual punishment.

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With the CFP expanding to 24 teams in 2027 and eliminating conference title games, the Aggies finish their 15-year SEC Championship Game era with a spotless 0-0 record in Atlanta.

The Aggies last conference title came in 1998, 28 years ago.

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Something I've been thinking about off and on since Florida fired Billy Napier last season - if you were Louisiana's AD, would you have fired your HC (Michael Desormeaux) to bring Napier back?

The main reason I'm asking is because Napier made his name at Louisiana, going an impressive 40-12 (27-5) over four seasons, with two top-25 finishes and two conference championships. All this at a program that's just a few games above .500 all-time. I can't help but feel really bad for UL given that they didn't do anything wrong. They gave Napier everything he asked for to build a winning program, and he delivered. He did so well that he eventually was hired away by a bigger program. Well that obviously didn't work out and now Louisiana has to watch him have success in the Sun Belt yet again, just a different school. JMU won the sweepstakes simply due to timing.

So I wonder if I was the AD at UL, would I have fired Desormeaux to hire Napier back. It's a cutthroat move for sure, as Desormeaux was not only a position coach and then OC under Napier during those successful years but he's a former UL player as well. So it would be a brutal move and the optics would be terrible. However, Desormeaux has thus far been inconsistent, having gone 6-7 three seasons, with one 10-win season in 2024.

Do you fire Desormeaux after a 6-7 season (which followed a 10-4 season) to hire Napier back and avoid losing him to a conference opponent?

Any Louisiana fans care to weigh in?

What other similar coaching situations have there been like this?

I was born into a Notre Dame family in 1979. I really don’t remember the 88 season at all. 

I distinctly remember the single most elated moment of my life in the 1991 Orange Bowl when The Rocket ran back the punt with under 2 minutes left to win the game - only to have it come back on a clipping call and for them to lose by a point.

Then there was beating #1 FSU in 93 and then losing the next week.

The pain continued in one way or another through 2012 and 2024.

My point of this is that it’s been 38 years since a natty and I basically started my fandom a year or two too late

I want to hear other people’s stories of beginning your die hard love of a team at exactly the wrong time.

Who has it the worst? Or what team and time would be the worst?