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This is a head scratcher when a two-year starter walks away.

Given how college football is currently structured, the most logical solution is to further expand the playoff for this coming season. The deadline to make that happen is January 23rd, and hopefully the power brokers in the SEC are doing whatever is necessary to ensure it gets done. It's the only way to ensure teams that are legitimately playoff-caliber—but play significantly tougher schedules (particularly in the SEC)—aren’t punished for it. You can’t keep ending up with scenarios like this year where a team like Texas is ranked behind Miami, Notre Dame, and BYU, despite having more top-15 wins than those three teams combined. No system is ever going to be perfect. Even with a 16- or 24-team playoff, there will always be teams that feel they were left out. But there’s a clear difference between excluding a team ranked around #13 that played a brutal schedule and is good enough to legitimately compete for a title, and a team sitting at #25 complaining about missing a hypothetical 24-team field. Teams ranked that low are rarely, if ever, truly championship-caliber.

At times they intersect.. but there's a proper way to have those discussions, as well. They definitely aren't at the forefront of that movement.. that's for damn sure.

I say one autobid per p4. It can either be their conference champ, or their highest rated team. Their choice. The team must have 3 losses or less.

No, no, no and no. A team that loses 1/3 of their games does not deserve an end of season shot, period.

Nothing. Get rid of automatic bids, seed by ranking - the auto bids is why a mess gets created.

Let’s do it. Can always throw some in at LB and RB

lets take 6 lineman let em battle it out yo

Probably because likely Harvey is going to be a starter next year along with Nya Bunton. This severely hurts depth though.

Well said, Starters first. Depth later. No more OL experiments.

Good.

Lot of snaps with no sacks allowed.

The weapons are completely different. Indiana doesn't have a Moore and a Lott to throw to.

PK seeing the news today

Going from Klein to Wiggins at OC is like going from Lincoln Riley’s brisket to dogfood. What an underwhelming hire for them.

Also delete the automated ND crap, tell ND to join a P4 conference immediately or be left out. Everyone plays by the same rules!

Just as much as I think he would flourish at Indiana since Cig is building a beast over there

But what version of it? Big Ten version of 4-4-2-2-1 (auto-bids for B10, SEC, ACC, B12, G5) + 3 at large? SEC version with fewer guarantees (not sure what the current proposal is) ? That seems to be the holdup, deciding on how many auto-bids are doled out.

Saw the name and tripped for a second

Colorado State's offensive line dipped out

The real solution is boring, logical, and therefore extremely unlikely: Expand to 16. Use actual data (BCS-style blends, efficiency metrics, SOS) instead of vibes. Keep the committee—but handcuff it. Seed the field, don’t decide who’s worthy of oxygen. Let the best teams in. If Duke gets smoked by Ole Miss, so be it. At least we’re arguing about football results instead of moral philosophy and “deservingness.” Blowouts happen in every playoff. That’s not a flaw—that’s evidence. And let’s not kid ourselves: no matter how clean the system is, ESPN will still stretch it into seven hours of panels, graphics, and manufactured outrage. Chaos isn’t a bug in the system. It’s the business model.

No floor, the best 16 teams get in. It’s very possible that in the SEC with a 9 game conference schedule and a required p4 non-conference game that a team could lose early in the season against good competition and build throughout the season. We don’t want to have record limits set. That’s how we get auto qualifiers for the G5 teams because Duke at 8-5 was ranked below JMU and Tulane. I’d rather see Duke get smoked by Ole Miss than Tulane twice in the same season.