Amid an offseason of chatter about future College Football Playoff expansion, multiple reports said last week the Big Ten was considering a 24 or 28-team model. Saturday morning, ESPN’s Rece Davis called that idea “absurd.” ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported last week the idea would include the elimination of conference championship games and creating more automatic […]
Amid an offseason of chatter about future College Football Playoff expansion, multiple reports said last week the Big Ten was considering a 24 or 28-team model. Saturday morning, ESPN’s Rece Davis called that idea “absurd.”
ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported last week the idea would include the elimination of conference championship games and creating more automatic bids for the Power Four conferences, according to ESPN. It would include seven spots for the Big Ten and SEC and five bids apiece for the ACC and Big 12. That would leave two bids for non-P4 conferences and two at-large spots.
The idea quickly met pushback from across college football. Davis compared it to a negotiation on selling a house because of how “absurd” he said it sounds.
“I’m just going to say this flat-out: I don’t believe they’re serious about this,” Davis said on College Football Countdown. “I believe this is like when you go to sell your house, and you say, ‘I’m going to ask $1 million more than I’m willing to settle for.’ They’re trying to get something back on the other side because on its face, this is absurd. It’s absurd, on its face. So they have to be looking for something else. That’s my guess.
“And I almost feel like the SEC’s play to go to nine games in the regular season is saying, ‘Okay, let’s see what you do with the strength of schedule metric.’ But the other thing is, all these schedules are going to be unequal, so there’s no way – I agree with Petitti on this, 100% agree, there’s no magic metric. Somebody’s going to be mad regardless of the answer, right?”
This story will be updated.
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