Playoff expansion sooner rather than later?

[professor8315]

The only reason the playoff should expand is if there has been consistently (year after year) a legitimate contender ranked below 20th in the polls
and I just don't see that - in fact I don't really see a contender ranked below 16th

Side Note:
however, it was pointed out to me that this expansion would allow for all 12 of the CAA teams to be given a playoff game every year
and I think that's something we've all been looking forward to

With that mindset let's go back to a 8 team playoff.....

[professor8315]

Playoff expansion is a great ideal. In the lower divisions (D2 has 24 teams playoff and D3 has 32) larger field works. I would like to see that the playoff committee to start the first round two weeks later. This wil allow conferences with 12 or more football members to have a champinionship game.

[RabidRabbit]

No auto-bids to conferences whose teams do not give money to football players solely because they're football players (need based or otherwise).

My foot's down on this one. Four more at-large or nothing.


FCS is DI football, not DIII football.

You drawing a line in the sand for the NCAA to follow? Kudos on a fabulous line!

I'm all set the go out and stop that meteor!

Ivy and SWAC or Pioneer, the more the FCS level teams participate in the play-off system, rather than do their own thang, is an improvement.

[superman7515]

Playoff expansion is a great ideal. In the lower divisions (D2 has 24 teams playoff and D3 has 32) larger field works.

Yes but there are more teams in D2 and D3, so there's actually a larger percentage of FCS teams in the playoffs than in D3 and the same as in D2.
FCS = 126 teams with a 20 team playoff for 16% of teams making the playoffs
D2 = 151 teams with a 24 team playoff for 16% of teams making the playoffs
D3 = 239 teams with a 32 team playoff for 13% of teams making the playoffs

[89Hen]

The fact that the Hens were in the discussion for a playoff spot this year tells you that no expansion is needed.

[uni88]

Playoff expansion is a great ideal. In the lower divisions (D2 has 24 teams playoff and D3 has 32) larger field works. I would like to see that the playoff committee to start the first round two weeks later. This wil allow conferences with 12 or more football members to have a champinionship game.

So you could play an 11 game season, play a conference championship game, make a 24 team playoff without a first round bye and advances to the championship. That's a potential 17 game season. Moving the first round back a week gives everyone 2 weeks between games (and the top 8 teams 3 weeks) and shrinks the time between the semi's and the NC to 2 weeks.

The NCAA isn't going to expand the playoffs for money. There isn't a lot of money in the FCS playoffs, they'll expand them because of the perception of them being unfair to the Pioneer and any other league that wants in. The NCAA worries about money, but they also worry about public opinion.

[asumike83]

It will all come down to what is more profitable for the NCAA but I would be opposed to it. The field does not need to be watered down any further, I think 16 teams was perfect.

[Lehigh Football Nation]

The fact that the Hens were in the discussion for a playoff spot this year tells you that no expansion is needed.

By whom?

[ursus arctos horribilis]

I don't really remember Delaware as a viable candidate once they could'nt reach the 7 either, much like Montana was not last year. Sure the fans like to pipe dream (not talking about 89 there) and I even heard the Delaware TV guys talking about the possibility after it was clear they wouldn't get 7 but I just figured they were trying to keep fan interest high.

[MplsBison]

Jack Juice-

1. The Ivies have completely flipped because of something that happened with Tommy Amaker recruiting at Harvard.
2. Some other Ivies have been doing what I stated for years.
3. I was good enough in another sport to be recruited by an Ivy...and I was offered cash even though my parents combined income was well above the level limits that would have allowed me to receive aid if I had been a regular student. This was at Princeton.

That said, go review the new Ivy model for aid...and STFU until you do so.

Come on dude. You knew exactly what I meant. Knew exactly that I was right. And you give me this crap???


AS I SAID -- Ivy schools do not, DO NOT, give money to football players that only those football players can get.