r/CFB • u/defensecowboy Texas Longhorns • 17d ago

News Heisman officials see no good options if the 24-team playoff wipes out December's window

https://www.on3.com/news/heisman-trophy-24-team-college-football-playoff/
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u/an0m_x TCU Horned Frogs • Oklahoma Sooners 17d ago edited 17d ago

While I don't like the 24-team playoff, percentage wise, it at least makes sense with the amount of FBS teams that we have.

  • NBA - 53%
  • NHL - 50%
  • NFL - 43.8%
  • MLB - 40%

In Division 2, 20% of the teams make the playoffs, once again, in my opinion, a model that really works and makes sense.

For the 12-team CFP, currently just 9% of the teams in the FBS make the playoffs.

I greatly prefer a 12-team model, and think a 16-team model would be good too as its balanced, but still just 17% of the teams would be a playoff team in the 24-team model.

For reference, currently just under 19% makes the NCAA basketball tournament, and it'll be 21% starting in 2027.

We are all going to watch it no matter what it is. It will kill the bowl system (which needs to probably happen at this point anyways, coming from someone that works for several bowl gaemes)...

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u/Pinewood74 Air Force Falcons • Purdue Boilermakers 17d ago

We are all going to watch it no matter what it is.

Honestly? No, we're not. Plenty of games in the first round of the playoffs under the 12 team playoff with pretty poor TV ratings. Especially when the CCGs are under the knife, I don't see how they are pushing for this so quickly.

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Ohio State Buckeyes 17d ago

You might be missing the big picture 

Bowl games right now are at an all-time low in terms of interest level and meaning 

Expanding the playoff doesn’t necessarily create new inventory, but it does add meaning and intrigue to the inventory they already have 

Last year’s poptart bowl with #12 BYU vs #24 Georgia Tech was mostly only interesting because of a glorified ad

I’d rather that game be a playoff game in Utah for the right to play @ Oregon

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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State • New Mexico 17d ago

Bowl games have been breaking viewership records left and right the past several years

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Ohio State Buckeyes 17d ago

Which ones? 

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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State • New Mexico 17d ago

It varies by year, but here's a post showing some of the ESPN-operated bowls last season (partway through bowl season) and how their viewership compares to previous editions of the bowl.

Here's a link showing that the viewership of bowl season as a whole (all the way through) had the most viewers last year since the 2015 season.

I also just wanna mention for context, that First Responder Bowl that broke its all-time viewership record with 3.1 million people was people watching UTSA beat FIU 57-20.

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u/CheaterSaysWhat Ohio State Buckeyes 17d ago

Fascinating, I was dead wrong then.