We could be looking at a 24-team playoff

[PaulieD]

14 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

According to Ross Dellenger, the CFP is exercising its look-in window for media rights of a new college football playoff structure that would include 24 teams.

ESPN currently owns those rights.

By moving to 24 teams from 16, it would cause the elimination of conference championship games. Thus, the media rights package would need to increase by at least $250mm.

 

 

Don't know if I agree, but I really do not like the conference championship game.

[Oldest Horn]

1 hour ago, Humblest said:

If they go to 24 teams with no conference championship games, do you think that’s a step toward eliminating conferences as we know them? Perhaps we end up with an nfl-like structure with two large conferences.

 

Another way we get there could be another round of expansion by the SEC & Big 10, essentially cherry picking Notre Dame and a couple of the ACC schools. 
 

im not a proponent of this, but I think that’s the direction we are heading. 

Conferences were around long before CCGs, so I doubt it. Unless CFB gets some sort of antitrust exemption or there is a collective bargaining agreement, conferences are the only governing body the courts respect. 

[Humblest]

1 hour ago, Oldest Horn said:

Conferences were around long before CCGs, so I doubt it. Unless CFB gets some sort of antitrust exemption or there is a collective bargaining agreement, conferences are the only governing body the courts respect. 

Good point. The SEC is demonstrating the authority a conference can exert with the LSU fiasco.