ACC--the conference that wants to prevent its regular season champ from becoming champion

[bierce]

Not kidding.  The ACC is considering making the "Championship Game" a game between the second and third place teams.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/43483852/acc-weigh-changes-title-game-commissioner-says

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

If the sec follows suit then aggy has something to really aspire to. 

[coltonmartinez]

This makes sense to me.
 

If the CFP format doesn’t change next season, this could give the ACC a better chance at getting two teams in once again.

If the top ACC team is ranked within the top 12 and doesn’t play a CCG they might not get pushed out by another team and the CCG winner could get a bye. 
 

Boom 2 ACC teams in the field of 12

[Jordan91]

If I was on the selection committee I would leave the conference out of the playoff for stupidity. 

[bierce]

10 minutes ago, Jordan91 said:

If I was on the selection committee I would leave the conference out of the playoff for stupidity. 

Or just tell the conferences that they get one automatic bid.  Just one.  And every team in the conference ranked in the CFP above the team that gets the auto bid and didn't play in the conference championship game is automatically disqualified.

I have to think the ACC is doing nothing more than rebranding itself as the All Cowardly Conference here.

SMU was not only included (wrongly) in the CFP, it was seeded ahead of the team that beat it in the ACC title game. 

Edited yesterday at 03:31 AM by bierce

[Bobby Burton]

The ACC shows it doesn’t understand big time football at every opportunity. 

[bierce]

3 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

The ACC shows it’s a basketball conference at every opportunity. 

I'm guessing it will push for the NCAA to recognize Flickerball. 

[Bevo92]

I read this earlier today about ACC evaluating and thought it was a joke.  

They need to cancel conf championships IMO.  Creates imbalance advantage as some teams get extra rest (eg Ohio State and ND this year).  Name conf champs based on regular season results plus tie breaker.   Makes every conf game count.   In current format Notre Dame has an obvious advantage by always getting 3 weeks rest in early Dec. 

Expand to 16 teams for CFP and Top 15 (plus Highest Group of Five) simply get seeded with top 8 teams hosting round 1 the first weekend of Dec.   Mid-Dec is Quarterfinals and 4 winning teams play in 2 premier bowl games on New Years Day.   National Championship 10-12 Days later (on Friday night instead of Monday night) so that College Football ends just as NFL playoffs begin.    This allows full month of December to be the month of College Playoffs.   Heard Joel Klatt suggest similar 10 days back and loved the idea.  
 

This would make for 2 ultimate Vegas long weekends back to back in early January.   New Years Day would be incredible if every year it was the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl that hosted the Semi Finals.  
 

National Championship could rotate.   This year that would have put the National Championship on Friday, Jan 10th followed by 3 straight days of NFL Wildcard Playoffs.   

Feels anticlimactic to have College National Championship on Jan 20th.   JMO.  

Edited yesterday at 05:33 AM by Bevo92

[GQ03]

1 hour ago, Bevo92 said:

I read this earlier today about ACC evaluating and thought it was a joke.  

They need to cancel conf championships IMO.  Creates imbalance advantage as some teams get extra rest (eg Ohio State and ND this year).  Name conf champs based on regular season results plus tie breaker.   Makes every conf game count.   In current format Notre Dame has an obvious advantage by always getting 3 weeks rest in early Dec. 

Expand to 16 teams for CFP and Top 15 (plus Highest Group of Five) simply get seeded with top 8 teams hosting round 1 the first weekend of Dec.   Mid-Dec is Quarterfinals and 4 winning teams play in 2 premier bowl games on New Years Day.   National Championship 10-12 Days later (on Friday night instead of Monday night) so that College Football ends just as NFL playoffs begin.    This allows full month of December to be the month of College Playoffs.   Heard Joel Klatt suggest similar 10 days back and loved the idea.  
 

This would make for 2 ultimate Vegas long weekends back to back in early January.   New Years Day would be incredible if every year it was the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl that hosted the Semi Finals.  
 

National Championship could rotate.   This year that would have put the National Championship on Friday, Jan 10th followed by 3 straight days of NFL Wildcard Playoffs.   

Feels anticlimactic to have College National Championship on Jan 20th.   JMO.  

This really didn't apply this year as both of Notre Dame & Ohio State's 1st round opponents had the same amount of rest as they did and then they both beat "rested" teams in the next round.