DucksReign wrote:

Guess which Power 5 Commissioner is salivating at a 12 team college football playoff?

Greg Sankey of the SEC! Why? Because of this recommendation(from the link below)...

"There would not be any automatic bids for conferences nor would there be any limits on the number of participants from a single conference."

Sankey probably believes and not unrealistically, the SEC can get 6 teams in the playoff.

The other Power 5 Conferences would be hoping for? 2 teams?

Is there a Pac-12 team right now who is considered playoff worthy?

Point being people complain now about the playoff being too SEC friendly...wait until it goes to 12...just saying.


https://www.si.com/college/ohiostate/football/ohio-state-football-college-football-playoff-working-committee-proposes-12-team-expansion

When the playoffs in college first started I thought something like a 12 team system would be great. I'm not so sure now. I can't imagine the later teams would have a realistic shot with how loaded the top few teams are every year. It's not like the NFL or even college basketball that a lower ranked team often can take out the favorites. Perhaps the thought of this 12 team idea is giving the top 4 teams a bye would make the 5-12 entertaining to watch in the first round. Maybe this could work, but I'm still skeptical. Expanding to 6 or 8 seems more practical.

I wouldn't think anyone would want to see 6 SEC teams in except for their fans in regards to not having limits from conferences. It's starts getting messy though if you put a limit on the number of SEC teams per say and end up putting a lot worse teams in the playoffs.  

To answer your question about the Pac being a playoff team I would say only a few teams might have a chance if they really stepped it up this year. The Ducks of course and USC and maybe the Huskies as a long shot. The Ducks are getting the talent coming in and I hope they can start utilizing the assets they have including better play calling, schemes, and player development  I would consider improvements on both sides of the ball, a decent Bowl game, and another Pac 12 title to be a successful year in building towards a playoff in a couple years. 

can't imagine that the P-12 or other conferences would go along w anything remotely like what Sankey is drooling over. twelve teams would have to include AQs from the P-5 at the very least.
I could do six, or maybe eight as Jeff suggests. AQs for the P-5 and then one at-large, or one G-5 and two at-large.

and further expansion is an open invitation to injuries to star players on the best teams (I hear ya, LeBron).

my main worry as a fan and season-tic holder is that the P-12 becomes 'playoff-centric', altering its historical scheduling practices to improve the chances of placing a team (or more than one team if there's expansion) in the playoff. first step would be eight conference games, interspersed w four chippies, some of them scheduled in Oct and Nov; just can't wait to open my season-tic package to see Portland St, Slippery Rock, South Dakota, and Cal-Davis in the same calendar year.

a reduction to eight conf games would mean fewer Autzen visits from P-12 South teams. right now we miss two South teams two years at a time, so the longest we could go w/o seeing SC or BruCru or Sparky is three years.
Bammy plays the Gators in Gainesville this year for the first time in 10 years. last time Tide traveled to The Swamp was 2011, preceded by 2006, preceded by 1999, preceded by 1991. that's what I'm talking about.

might all be irrelevant anyhoo. Sally Jenkins writing in today's WaPo says the NCAA is dead, although I think her interpretation of the SCOTUS decision is a bit hyperbolic. still, how soon until The Wild West gets here and ESPN decides everything?


 

Last edited by OldMacManaic (6/22/2021 12:25 pm)

Its kind of funny but the SEC is gearing up for more offense while the Ducks are gearing up for more defense. And....Im not to sure about our Offense. On top of that our D is still young--Time will tell but most PAC teams dont stand a prayer in h-ll against the Bama's or Clemson's out there. The Ohio St game will be a good forecast for the future.