A 24-team College Football Playoff: Why the Big Ten wants it, and would it kill college football?
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What is the Big Ten's proposal for a 24-team College Football Playoff?
Welcome back to the Bill & Doug Show 2014 playoff on the docket. Bill, I love it. You hate it. Why do we think that? Now, I actually don't love it, but we're going to talk about a proposal that's been out there from the Big Ten, but Pete Thamel... the goat did a great job with the story today, presenting what he said is an internal document that has been presented by the big 10 conference to its athletic directors and coaches, I guess, to see what they think. And it is outlining the, a Big Ten proposal for a 24-team college football playoff. There are multiple things within that, some specifics. I think that maybe weren't made clear in the past that add to the discussion. But we're going to go through sort of all the parts of the discussion.
And I think in the end, this is about one thing. One. That is an issue that I believe needs to be solved. I'm not sure what the way to solve it is, but I understand the Big Ten trying to solve it. But why don't you give us first blush, Philly Billy reactions, Doug LaMaurice and Bill Landis here on the Bill & Doug Show to the 2014 playoff.
It's another product of the Tony Petitti bad idea machine. Nobody wants this. Nobody wants it. They make the worst t-shirts and the worst playoff rackets you've ever seen here at the Tony Petitti bad idea factory. And I don't think... I've seen some of this pop up throughout this discussion of, well, the Big Ten doesn't really want this. They're sort of just... doing a trial balloon of what is probably not exactly what they want. And, and perhaps even something that is sort of intentionally bad to kind of get back to the table and get what they really want addressed. It's like, I don't think that's what this is.
How would eliminating conference championship games affect the playoff structure?
I think they want this. I think they actually want this. I don't, I don't think he's that diabolical. I actually think the big 10 wants a 2014 playoff. And I think that sucks. So that is my 30,000-foot view opinion on the subject.
For those of you who do not follow Bill Landis on social media, and you certainly should, the initial reaction to Pete's story was a Bill retweet with a thumbs down that I don't believe that Twitter has sound effects. But if it did, in my head, that thumbs down came with a, Did you intend it that way?
Yes, but I was either going to do the thumbs down emoji or I also like just quote tweeting it and just put, who farted? But I wanted to have a sense of decorum, so I just used the thumbs down emoji.
See, but that's the thing. We're an independent media operation now. You don't have to worry about the overlords calling you in for a meeting about your who farted tweet. Let it rip, brother. That's true. I'm here for it. I'm here for it. I got to tell you, we got a super interesting quarterback discussion about the power four that we have researched and locked and loaded. You have researched. I haven't done anything. I had a lovely time. made a spreadsheet and we were going to do it today but we're going to save it because this popped up because we want to talk about national college football because it's mid-february and what else is there to do we have a lot we have a lot of good national college football topics we understand you guys are often here for our ohio state coverage and we love doing that we love diving into the buckeyes but we also want to make sure we did it during the season
We did at least one show a week that was a northern Big Ten national college football kind of show. We haven't done those that much in the offseason yet.
What are the potential impacts of a 24-team playoff on team scheduling?
We want to get back to that, Bill. So that's part of what we want to do here. We want to make sure that we maintain our foot in that college football discussion, which is why when this popped up, we were like, let's do this. I sort of have five topics to sort of run through, and we'll discuss – some of the specifics in this plan that again maybe weren't always part of the discussion one of the specifics of this big 10 proposal to go to a 24 team playoff is eliminating conference title games and uh with pete's reporting there is just like within their kind of this is a quote from from pete's story on espn.com again pete is very good at this job
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the Big Ten's proposal for a 24-team College Football Playoff?
0:06–2:11
2
How would eliminating conference championship games affect the playoff structure?
2:11–4:03
3
What are the potential impacts of a 24-team playoff on team scheduling?
4:03–6:23
4
How might a 24-team playoff change the dynamics of college football?
6:23–7:48
5
What concerns do fans have about expanding the playoff to 24 teams?
7:48–9:40
6
How does the playoff expansion affect the perception of the SEC versus the Big Ten?
9:40–11:45
7
What are the arguments for and against automatic qualifiers in the playoff?
11:45–13:18
8
How does the episode conclude regarding the future of college football playoffs?
13:18–1:45:35
Speakers
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