2024 Schedule Difficulty - Projections per CFN

[CEB]

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The only good ideas are the ones that bring more money to the conferences. You could schedule two TBD non-conference games to each team somewhere in weeks 8-11, one home and one away. Then after week 4 assign the matchups via auction based on the promise shown so far in the season. Each team's possible matchups are those with TBD-away the same week you're TBD-home and vice versa.
The hype for the auction process itself and the auction matchup games would be more lucrative than matchups that were decided years in advance. Meanwhile, each team's home, bye, and away weeks are established at the regular time so the facilities and fans can make plans accordingly-- only the opponent is not known until a month or two from kickoff.

You’re not wrong… you’re right on the verge of a legitimate merit based playoff. It’s where we should’ve gone before all of the powers started concentrating in just two conferences.
How great would it be to go back about 40 years and seed conference champs in a legit playoff? Back then they said it couldn’t be done. Too bad.. now they are right.

 

[iceeater1969]

The only good ideas are the ones that bring more money to the conferences. You could schedule two TBD non-conference games to each team somewhere in weeks 8-11, one home and one away. Then after week 4 assign the matchups via auction based on the promise shown so far in the season. Each team's possible matchups are those with TBD-away the same week you're TBD-home and vice versa.
The hype for the auction process itself and the auction matchup games would be more lucrative than matchups that were decided years in advance. Meanwhile, each team's home, bye, and away weeks are established at the regular time so the facilities and fans can make plans accordingly-- only the opponent is not known until a month or two from kickoff.

Like the concept of better games getting hype.

But what about the games of the not so good teams being blah fests.
Perhaps after confernce play is halfway done our conference could start a 12 team playoff -- winners and losers brackets working to 4 team playoff.that climaxes before the CF PLAYOFF. OH ! Its like the march madness.

 

[CuseJacket]

 

[CEB]

Almost as if it’s a different conference.
Welcome to college football 2024

 

[stinger78]

But some perspective: Between 1902 and 1973, 41 consecutive games against Clemson were played in Atlanta. Maybe it's the least Tech could do to give them two straight at Clemson.

Of course, Clemson HC Frank Howard, when asked, replied wtte: Yes, we have to travel to Atlanta every year to play Tech and then we cry all the way to the bank.

 

[stinger78]

You’re not wrong… you’re right on the verge of a legitimate merit based playoff. It’s where we should’ve gone before all of the powers started concentrating in just two conferences.
How great would it be to go back about 40 years and seed conference champs in a legit playoff? Back then they said it couldn’t be done. Too bad.. now they are right.

No, no, no! You have to let media dollars decide who is in and who is out.