The Big Ten has since added Southern Cal and UCLA and struck a huge new TV deal. The 12-team format was proposed 15 months earlier by a working group that Sankey was apart of but met resistance by the Big Ten, ACC and Pac-12 after months of meetings.
Broadcast entities also must be determined. The expanded playoff being held in 2024 or 2025 will depend largely on dates being available in host cities, Hancock said. Now it’s a matter of the CFP Management Committee-the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbick-working out details like the dates of the games and the national championship host cities beyond Atlanta for the 2024 season and Miami for 2025 and the revenue distribution for the expanded field and if players may get a piece of that. “We have another two rounds of a tournament to play over the current two rounds, so there will be four rounds, of course, and the way we're looking at it now, it would be hard to squeeze all that in and still finish on the dates that we're playing on now,” CFP executive director Bill Hancock said. The four quarterfinal games and two semifinal games will be played in bowls with the national championship game remaining at a neutral site although likely later in January. The highest ranked conference champions will be seeded 1-4 and get first-round byes and teams ranked 5 through 12 will play with the higher ranked team choosing whether to host on campus or at a neutral site. So it's, like, there will be somebody complaining about something about 12.” There's probably some good things about 12. There's been some good things about four. And I don't think we know the repercussions of going to 12 over 4. “I think there's some good and bad to both. “I wouldn't say that I've been clearly in one camp over the other,” he said. Smart, whose team is considered a top playoff contender this year, isn’t necessarily a strong proponent for an expanded playoff. 3 and beating two higher seeded teams in Michigan and Alabama.
Georgia won the national championship in 2021 after being seeded No. I'm sure people can argue just the opposite of that, as well.” We're one of the few that's not done that way. At the end of the day how are all college sports decisions made? They're done on the field, in a championship environment. That's giving everybody a realistic shot. “If they did that, somebody within that back five, six, seven, eight is going to win a national championship at some point. “I would just rather go further than eight if we're going to do it,” he said then. Smart said before the Peach Bowl in 2020 that he’s be in favor going to 12 teams if the field were to expand with the first four teams perhaps getting a bye. 7-Florida in 2020, Auburn in 2017 and Mississippi State in 2014. 5 Georgia in 20 and three other teams were inside the top 8 at No. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey noted Saturday before the Georgia-Oregon game in Mercedes-Benz Stadium that the conference has had teams just miss the playoff in recent years-No. “I don't really get into whether or not it's going to be beneficial for us or not, because I think it's year to year on what kind of team you have and how the other teams do in the country,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said Monday. Georgia, which has gone 58-10 the past five seasons and won the national title in 2021, would have made a 12-team playoff every year from 2017-2021 with a seed as high as 3 in 2017 to as low as 9 in 2020, according to Connelly’s simulations. The College Football Playoff has been very good to the SEC and an expanded playoff could as well even with more access to teams from other conferences.Īn SEC team has won five of the eight playoffs thus far with Alabama taking three and Georgia and LSU with one each.Īn SEC team has played in all but the first CFP championship game with two all-SEC Georgia-Alabama title games in the 20 seasons. More: Fireworks in opener signal this could be one of the best Georgia football offenses ever “Especially if you’re not winning the conference, but I think it could be good for other teams.”
“I think it’s going to be a long season,” Georgia redshirt sophomore offensive guard Tate Ratledge said. Those intriguing matchups - via ’s Bill Connelly based on the CFP rankings those seasons - comes in a field that will be determined by the six highest rated conference champions getting automatic bids and six at-large bids going to the next six highest ranked teams. More: After splashy debut, Jefferson's Malaki Starks just getting started for Georgia football
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