It's Official: We Have a College Football Playoff

by srr50 on Jun 26, 2025 7:20 PM CDT

The BCS Presidential Oversight Committee announced late Tuesday that they have adopted the playoff format that was forwarded by the commissioners of the 11 BCS conferences and it will start New Year's Eve, 2014.

The Presidents accepted the proposal that incorporates six bowls into a rotating system for the semifinals, which will be held on Dec. 31st and Jan.1st every year beginning after the 2014 regular season. The playoff will also use a selection committee patterned after the NCAA basketball selection process.

The committee supposedly will take into account win-loss record, strength of schedule, head-to-head record, and if a team is a conference champion when looking for the Final Four participants.

The Championship game will be bid out to cities, much like the Super Bowl. The playoff will rotate the semis between the current BCS bowls (Fiesta, Orange, Sugar and Rose) and add two more.

Hello BCS Oversight Committee? Jerry Jones on line 1.

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January bowl games?

Does this change when the other four, non-semifinal bowls will be played? I mean, are we going to have a loaded January 1st, or will they be strung out like they are now?

by ArthurFenstemaker on Jun 26, 2025 7:25 PM CDT reply actions

I think the idea is to take back late December and early January

and just cede the rest to the NFL. From what I understand they are talking about having the semi-finals wrap up the bowls and play the championship game within 6-8 days of the semis.

by srr50 on Jun 26, 2025 7:33 PM CDT reply actions

Thanks

I would love that.

by ArthurFenstemaker on Jun 26, 2025 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions

1 month to prep for semi's and 1 week to prep for NC game?

by Fried Rice on Jun 26, 2025 7:57 PM CDT reply actions

Can anyone explain...

…the difference between a “contract bowl” (apparently the Rose, Orange, and our new Champions Bowl) and the “access bowls” (the other 3 bowls rotating in the playoff scenario)? It didn’t seem clear to me in the espn article I read.

by ophorn on Jun 26, 2025 8:21 PM CDT via mobile reply actions

I can't

terribly written shit by Heather Dinich.

by Hookah Horns on Jun 26, 2025 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions

And fake Beebe

is running amok on them tweeterwebs.

by UT07 on Jun 26, 2025 8:27 PM CDT reply actions

was that really so hard?

I am pretty sure I read (and wrote) proposals for something like this 8-10 years ago.

And it is a slippery slope to a bigger playoff field (8-16 teams), which is awesome.

"If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting."

by RedmondLonghorn on Jun 26, 2025 9:14 PM CDT reply actions

Don't worry

They’ll still fuck a bunch of stuff up. Read Dan Wetzel’s killer piece from yesterday.

by ColoradoAg on Jun 27, 2025 8:43 AM CDT up reply actions

An 8-16 team playoff would ruin the strength of the regular season

Therefore, fuck that option. We should never go above 4.

TEXAS FIGHT

by Darklust on Jun 27, 2025 9:26 AM CDT up reply actions

that's just like...your opinion, man

"If God dwells inside us like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting."

by RedmondLonghorn on Jun 27, 2025 9:58 AM CDT up reply actions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdd6_ZxX8c

by Loisaida Horn on Jun 27, 2025 11:34 AM CDT up reply actions

watch

by Loisaida Horn on Jun 27, 2025 11:35 AM CDT up reply actions

Wrong, just the opposite.

It increases the strength of the regular season.

Currently you only have a handful of teams still playing for something worthwhile in November. In 2014, you’ll have upwards of 10 teams still playing for something worthwhile in November.

With an 8 team playoff, you have half the top 25 still playing for a chance to win it all in November. The regular season only gets stronger because more games will actually mean something.

@ccommand3r

by CMDR on Jun 27, 2025 10:35 AM CDT up reply actions

What happens when you lose a game now?

Your season is fuckin’ done unless other teams lose. Half the top 25 still sucks and shouldn’t be included as it dilutes the championship and allows teams to lose and consider those loses gimmees.

TEXAS FIGHT

by Darklust on Jun 27, 2025 1:13 PM CDT up reply actions

Your first sentence makes my point.

@ccommand3r

by CMDR on Jun 27, 2025 3:37 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions

YAY

All controversy is over forever. Committees are outstanding arbiters of value!

by Scipio Tex on Jun 26, 2025 9:18 PM CDT reply actions

I think the committee should pick the Champion based on Vegas odds pre-season. Let the market decide. No reason to play any games. We already know who is going to win in any given year. Let Mack focus on recruiting. Forget player development. Make the junior year of high school serve as the ultimate king-maker.

by Yossarian Rising on Jun 27, 2025 6:49 AM CDT up reply actions

This guy gets it

by pleaseplaykindle on Jun 27, 2025 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions

Phil Steele

He could be king of the committee. He would tweet his reasons for selecting one team over another in all of his abbreviated slang.

"You’d think some of these Ohio St guys would wear long sleeves, instead of reminding us why they were in trouble last year."
-Rich Eisen, 2012 NFL Combine

by TexaStunna on Jun 27, 2025 11:27 PM CDT up reply actions

yeah...

the BCS conferences select the committee? Wonder what their guiding interest will be…

by Nickel Rover on Jun 27, 2025 12:01 PM CDT up reply actions

This is a step in the right direction.....

Better to have 4 teams with a shot at the MNC rather than two and settling it on the field from that group. I’m not comfortable with the committee either—lots of fuck-up potential there. I am hoping that once the powers that be see how much $ this generates over the old system, we will then move to a bigger playoff.

by hh500 on Jun 27, 2025 7:30 AM CDT reply actions

And the MNC is STILL in the middle of freaking January.

“Championship Monday” they are defining as “the first Monday in January that is six or more days after the semifinal games.” Well, shit. The first year this is in effect, the MNC will be played January 12th.

Year two it improves to January 11th, then the 9th, the 8th, and either the 7th (unlikey) or the 14th. Why can they not hold the semifinal games before Christmas and then play the MNC on New Years Day? Is that so hard?

To err is human...but humans have such low standards.

by adt2 on Jun 27, 2025 7:37 AM CDT reply actions

So we've substituted computers and pollsters

for the judgment of a group that will no doubt run with the efficiency of the “Council of Thirteen of Qarth” and have potential for corruption that would make the Governor Pappy O’Daniel Administration blush? Oh, and incidentally, this group will make decisions - if the NCAA Basketball Selection Committee is any indicator - based on, in no small part, computers?

I see no way this plan can fail.

by stevenebraska on Jun 27, 2025 8:15 AM CDT via mobile reply actions

In that case

I wonder if someone on the committee will be able to invoke Sumai when he or she insists on a team getting into the playoff when it otherwise wouldn’t.

Attention all planets of the solar federation
Attention all planets of the solar federation
Attention all planets of the solar federation
We have assumed control
We have assumed control
We have assumed control

by lnghrn53 on Jun 27, 2025 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions

I just envision

13 Barry Switzers appearing behind the rest of the committee and slitting their throats

by stevenebraska on Jun 27, 2025 11:17 AM CDT up reply actions

Or 13 Craig Jameses

And his powers grow substantially when there are hookers in the meeting room much like the dragons in the house of the undying.

by lnghrn53 on Jun 27, 2025 12:20 PM CDT up reply actions

This sounded good to me...

until the selection committee run like basketball part. That is just bs. I want more transparency, not less.

TEXAS FIGHT

by Darklust on Jun 27, 2025 8:36 AM CDT reply actions

It kills the coaches' poll

which is very good. I think they’ll go to 8 within 5 year and stay there for a while. They should approve and pick one computer program to determine the SOS factor; it really can’t be that hard with the technology available. The computers can also rate the conferences overall, so as to mitigate the effect of the so called conference champion component (read any team from The Big East or ACC) polls, such as AP, will of course still exist, but they should have no bearing on the selection.

Suck it, Delaney!

by boorad on Jun 27, 2025 12:49 PM CDT reply actions