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Bad side? Christmas in Kalamazoo.
Where faithful CU-Buffis found themselves in Christmas 2016 – if The College Football Playoff had been on the 12-team field five years ago.
Up? $ 27 million.
What could CU athletics collect as a collected share of the total annual postseason income if the CFP expands to a dozen schools as expected.
That’s three times more than Buff’s reported share of $ 9 million in annual revenue from Pac-12. On the bright side, $ 27 million could buy a terrible amount of parks and hot cocoa to ward off the worst that a winter trip to the Great Lakes region would offer.
College football fans should be excited, Chuck Neinas, a former Boulder-based former Big 12 and Big Eight commissioner, told the Post recently after asking about the expansion of the CFP, which is expected to take place before the 11 university presidents and chancellors vote in Dallas on Tuesday.
It increases interest in sports. Its wide-ranging, widespread and I think they did an admirable job of finding a way to promote the sport, not to mention a meaningful championship, now the games in late October and November mean something for a lot more people.
What on the table
In the proposal which was announced on June 10th, the new apparent CFP will include a 12-team field anchored by the six FBS conference champions with the highest ranking as determined by the selection committee, as well as the six major teams in the highest rank.
Despite some Pac-12 resistance, there is currently no automatic seat for each Power 5 conference champion. And there are no limits to how many schools from one league could get into the 12-team.
It was the biggest shock to me when it came out, Pac-12 Network analyst Yogi Roth told the Post. But it is almost important to note that if one president (in the group) disagrees, then the whole agreement breaks down. So I’m sure there was a lot of negotiation in that (case) case.
Under the new form, the champion of the top four leagues would get the overtakes as the seed of the top four. The first round games would be on campus venues, with 5 hosting 12, 6 hosting 11, 7 hosting 10 and 8 hosting 9. The rest of the tournament would fall closely in line with the current format as the national semi-finals and semi-finals are held in a bowl with matches and championship on a neutral site.
The first round of games on campus will likely be held in late December, within two weeks of the conference championship. The semi-finals are likely to be played on January 1st or 2nd as well as the next day and are likely to be held in a way that does not conflict with the NFL schedule.
The CFP is entering its eighth year of a 12-season television contract. Playoff CEO Bill Hancock has said the earliest extended format would be introduced for the 2023 season.
What it means for CU
More money, of course.
And a shot for Buffs, if the season is repeated in the same way as in 2016, to play something the CU hasn’t smelled since 1990: the National Championship.
If you have more slots, it will give you another chance to get one or two other (Pac-12) teams into the mix, Buffs Sports Director Rick George said. And I think it’s good for our conference and it’s good for Colorado.
If the extended format had been in use five years ago, the CU, which ended its regular season with a 10-3 mark and a Pac-12 South title, would make Field 11 the seed.
Buffs, who finished 10th in the final CFP rankings released on December 4, after a 31-point loss to Washington in the Pac-12 title game, would have made it to the first-round race from the sixth-seeded West Michigan, which set a 13-0 record in the regular season 2016 .
Instead of the Oklahoma State force in the Alamo Bowl, Buffs ’post-season trail would have begun in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in mid-December or later.
The winner of the CU-WMU cant met the third seed Washington, who would have seen the first round goodbye, in the quarterfinals in a neutral spot.
If the 12-team format existed between 2010 and 2019, Pac-12 would have placed an average of two teams on the field each season, based on the CFP or BCS ratings of the last decade.
But under the current proposal, the Pac-12 would also close in 2020. Both the ACC champion and eighth in the final CFP rankings and Coastal Carolina, the 12th-ranked solar zone champion, deserve slot games. over league champion Oregon, who was 25th at the end of the regular season.
Resigning Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott issued a statement last Friday after the CFP management committee approved a 12-team proposal to demand that all (Power 5) champions should receive a common fisheries policy each year.
However, the extended field may be a potential benefit to the CU and its other Pac-12 institutions. Jon Wilner of San Jose Mercury News last week, based on figures from Chicago-based media research firm Navigate, that the league’s post-season revenue is projected to triple in the expanded playoffs – from the current $ 9 million per school to possibly $ 27 million in 12-team form.
I think it would be really premature to talk about it because you don’t know when they’re going out and negotiating about it and what it looks like, George said. But you should believe it would be be in a better financial situation.
What it means for CSU
Increased stakes. Hope. Potentially.
While Mountain West has suffered nationally from Utah’s loss to Pac-12 and TCU to Big 12, Boise State would have made a 12-team playoff in 2014 – and possibly 2011 and 2010 as well.
Its Rams were to be shocked by the combination of the Power 5 competitions over the next five years – trips to Michigan and Washington State in 2022; To the CU in 2023; To Texas in 2024; Texas Tech in 2025 or 2026 and take this momentum into the league game, the CFP selection board will be sure to notice.
On the other hand, Rams has not won the MW title since 2002, which is also the last year that the CSU took the national ranking in the AP Top 25 poll in December.
It’s a great bonus for us, that’s how I see it, Rams Sports Director Joe Parker said.
We’ve always made it clear that our expectation is to be the leading program in Mountain West. And when you look at the performance of all (sports), you have to earn a conference championship, which is of course the clearest lane in the (new) CFP system, is to be a conference champion and then be one of the highest ranked champions in college football.
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