Understanding the new BCS... The CFP

[WhiteMamba]

So the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) will go by the wayside and be replaced with the College Football Playoff (CFP)

The CFP will incorporate 12 teams, 4 of which will be selected for a playoff.

Lets keep in mind, the CFP embodies all 7 games, 12 teams.

A selection committee will take what they feel are the 4 best teams. Currently the standards for how they will select has not been determined. But it is widely known Conference champions are not a requirement.

There are 6 bowls and a NCG that make up the CFP. The Rose, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta, Cotton, Peach and an alternate NATTY game that will be chosen similar to the SUper Bowl 2-4 years in advance.

Each year the 6 games will rotate the semifinal games pairing these Bowl games. Rose and Sugar / Orange and Fiesta / Cotton and Peach.

In a year where one of the bowl games does not have the semifinals, they will host a CFP game, similar to what we have in the BCS's Non NCGs now.

After the semifinals, there will be a NCG played at a host city not associated with any of the above or any other bowls. Jerry World, Houston, and Minnesota's new stadium yet to be built or on the radar for the NCG.

In the first year of this CFP world, The Rose and Sugar are the Semifinal games. Meaning the rest of the 4 games are CFP games similar to current non NCG BCS games.

The B1G and SEC get two auto bids into the CFP.

PAC and B1G champ get auto bids to the Rose, unless the Rose hosts the NCG, at that point, the selection committee will place them in a replacement CFP bowl unless they qualify for the Semis

The SEC and Big 12 champs will play in the Sugar Bowl. setting up an identical scenario for what the Rose has had for 100 years with the PAC and B1G. And of course, if the Big12 champ qualifies for a semifinal spot, their Sugar Bowl bid goes to an at large. Possibly another Big12 team if they qualify.

The ACC gets an auto bid to the Orange Bowl following the same scenarios above should that conference qualify for the Semifinals.

Semifinal and NATTY Locations

2014 Rose / Sugar NATTY Jerry World
2015 Orange / Fiesta NATTY TBA
2016 Cotton / Peach NATTY TBA

Bowl Selection Process * all depending on what 4 teams from what conferences are chosen for Semfinals

7 auto bids and 5 at large including a mandatory best non aq champion (highest ranked)
THE CFP

Rose: B1G #1 vs PAC #1

Sugar: SEC #1 vs Big 12 #1

Orange: SEC #2 vs ACC #1/ B1G #2 or Notre Dame

Cotton / Fiesta / Peach will have the 5 at large teams plus one auto qualifier.

Keep in mind, when one of the above CFP bowl games is a semifinal matchup, the auto conference bids do not apply.

Have fun in 2014. It will make more sense then.

-Mamba

 

[WhiteMamba]

CFP logo

 

[Ironbreaker]

Got a link to the article mamba? I went to College Football Playoff

but was too lazy to dig.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Got a link to the article mamba? I went to College Football Playoff

but was too lazy to dig.

No link, I wrote that off the top of my head from what I have gathered so far.

 

[WhiteMamba]

No link, I wrote that off the top of my head from what I have gathered so far.

wiki probably is a good place.

 

[Ironbreaker]

No link, I wrote that off the top of my head from what I have gathered so far.

Well I'm looking forward to it. It's a good start.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Well I'm looking forward to it. It's a good start.

Two more teams means another huge money payoff in a big bowl game.

I like seeing the non aq get one auto bid.

Great to have the Cotton and Peach included as they should have been all along. And the Peach is no longer the ChikfilA bowl anymore. That is a giant plus.

Should be awesome.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Jerry Palm's Predctions as of today if CFP were in place this season

Semis

Sugar 1 Alabama vs 4 Clemson
Rose 2 Oregon vs 3 Clemson

Cotton Texas A&M vs Oky State

Orange FSU vs Michigan

Fiesta Stanford vs LSU

Peach Louisville vs Georgia

Notice Louisville. If the system were in place this year they would be @ large best non aq since they are in American Conference currently

Also, I count 4 SEC teams. No limit on number of teams from a conference. Where the BCS capped any conference @ 2 participants.

 

[Ironbreaker]

A selection committee will take what they feel are the 4 best teams. Currently the standards for how they will select has not been determined. But it is widely known Conference champions are not a requirement.
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Not sure I like tho whole selection committee bit. But we can give them the benefit of the doubt for a few years. Any shenanigans and it needs to be dealt with swiftly!

Here's more info on it. Conference champ might not be a requirement, but it's listed as a factor;
The Selection Committee

A selection committee will choose the four teams for the playoff based on their performance during the regular season, including, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, championships won, and other factors. The teams will be seeded so that #1 will play #4 in one semifinal and #2 will meet #3 in the other, with the winners advancing to the national championship game.

 

[WhiteMamba]

Not sure I like tho whole selection committee bit. But we can give them the benefit of the doubt for a few years. Any shenanigans and it needs to be dealt with swiftly!

Here's more info on it. Conference champ might not be a requirement, but it's listed as a factor;
The Selection Committee

A selection committee will choose the four teams for the playoff based on their performance during the regular season, including, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, championships won, and other factors. The teams will be seeded so that #1 will play #4 in one semifinal and #2 will meet #3 in the other, with the winners advancing to the national championship game.

Ya I was just chatting with yeo about this. I said if we thought we had a bitching and moaning parade with BCS just wait til that committee leaves out a couple teams that feel they are deserving...

Message boards and twitter will melt down.

 

[Ironbreaker]

Ya I was just chatting with yeo about this. I said if we thought we had a bitching and moaning parade with BCS just wait til that committee leaves out a couple teams that feel they are deserving...

Message boards and twitter will melt down.

Oh it's bound to happen. Will be fun!


I would like to know who this selection committee is comprised of. Bunch of good ole boys from down south or what?

 

[geneh_33]

Sorry, Mamba, you got the Orange Bowl wrong.

The ACC is GUARANTEED an Orange Bowl bid unless the Orange is a semi-final game. Even if the ACC champion goes to the playoff, another ACC team is GUARANTEED to get into the Orange.

The Big 10, SEC and Notre Dame are all eligible for the other Orange Bowl bid. The Big 10 is GUARANTEED to get the bid twice in the next six years. The SEC is also guaranteed to get the bid the same as the Big 10.

Once the requirements for the Big 10 and SEC are satisfied, then the Orange must invite Notre Dame or they can choose an alternate.

So Notre Dame can get the other bid for the other 2 years of the 6.

 

[TigerBait1971]

The logo looks like a vagina.

 

[geneh_33]

I would also guess that the Peach Bowl will continue to wish to have ACC vs. SEC.

What I do not understand is what happens with the Fiesta Bowl? Will they be "forced" to take the highest ranking mid-major every year? Why doesn't the Fiesta make a move to avoid that and sign up the Pac and Big 12 runners-up?

 

[WhiteMamba]

Sorry, Mamba, you got the Orange Bowl wrong.

The ACC is GUARANTEED an Orange Bowl bid unless the Orange is a semi-final game. Even if the ACC champion goes to the playoff, another ACC team is GUARANTEED to get into the Orange.

The Big 10, SEC and Notre Dame are all eligible for the other Orange Bowl bid. The Big 10 is GUARANTEED to get the bid twice in the next six years. The SEC is also guaranteed to get the bid the same as the Big 10.

Once the requirements for the Big 10 and SEC are satisfied, then the Orange must invite Notre Dame or they can choose an alternate.

So Notre Dame can get the other bid for the other 2 years of the 6.

Never mentioned they didn't get a guaranteed Orange bid.

And I still wont consider ND an ACC team until they actually join all the way. None of that half ass crap.

 

[WhiteMamba]

I would also guess that the Peach Bowl will continue to wish to have ACC vs. SEC.

What I do not understand is what happens with the Fiesta Bowl? Will they be "forced" to take the highest ranking mid-major every year? Why doesn't the Fiesta make a move to avoid that and sign up the Pac and Big 12 runners-up?

The PAC didn't lobby for another auto bid because the only tie in they wanted was Rose.

The bowl they should have gone after was Cotton for an auto #2. The PAC is confident they will be getting 2 teams a year. And only wanted one tie in. The Rose.

 

[geneh_33]

Never mentioned they didn't get a guaranteed Orange bid.

And I still wont consider ND an ACC team until they actually join all the way. None of that half ass crap.

You posted that the Orange is SEC #2 vs. ACC/Big Ten #2 when it is actually ACC vs. SEC #2/Big 10 #2/Notre Dame.

The bad thing for ND is that since they are not joining the ACC all the way, they are not guaranteed an Orange Bowl bid at all. They are only guaranteed to be considered for the bid.

ND "joined" the ACC so it could have access to our "non-BCS" tier bowl games. That is the only benefit they are guaranteed. And they must be no worse than 1 loss from the ACC teams considered.

They get no cut from conference revenues in football, either.

 

[Ironbreaker]

Notre Dame making shit difficult as usual.

 

[WhiteMamba]

You posted that the Orange is SEC #2 vs. ACC/Big Ten #2 when it is actually ACC vs. SEC #2/Big 10 #2/Notre Dame.

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typo. I promise. Get to typin so fast I gets a head of myself

THE CFP

Rose: B1G #1 vs PAC #1

Sugar: SEC #1 vs Big 12 #1

Orange: SEC #2 vs ACC #1/ B1G #2 or Notre Dame

Cotton / Fiesta / Peach will have the 5 at large teams plus one auto qualifier.

Keep in mind, when one of the above CFP bowl games is a semifinal matchup, the auto conference bids do not apply.

Have fun in 2014. It will make more sense then.

-Mamba

 

[WhiteMamba]

Notre Dame making shit difficult as usual.

un freaking real. Get over yourselves and grow some balls. Join a conference already.