6 teams, 8 teams, 12 teams? Which new playoff format would benefit Ohio State the most?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 119 minutes

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This Buckeye Talk Podcast episode is all about the best format for the College Football Playoff, and which version would most benefit Ohio State. The playoff committee last month announced it was looking into alternatives to the four-team model. It could change by 2023. So Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means go over seven models, and what works the best for college football in general and what works best for Ohio State. Led by texter input, playoff models with no teams, two teams, four teams, six teams, eight teams, 12 teams and 16 teams are discussed and analyzed. And Doug comes down very firmly on a plan that he likes the best and thinks would work for college football and the Buckeyes. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.8	Welcome back to the big Wednesday book I talk, Doug Lamarie stays prepared to see the means we're talking playoff is that time of year we're finally getting a chance to dig into this the playoff committee had like a big meeting in April and said, hey, we might change this whole thing and we just were busy we didn't really have time to get into it.
0:40.8	So we are going to go through it because it feels like it might change there's four years left in the college football playoff TV contract, but the college football committee said like hey, like we may change it before.
0:54.8	The end of the contract because if everybody agrees there's unanimous consent they can change the format and expand from a 14 playoff.
1:04.8	If they all agree before 2025 and they might all agree because there might be a boatload of money to be made.
1:09.8	So they said they are looking at like 63 different possibilities from 4 to 8 to 10 to 12 to 16 teams, all kinds of varieties.
1:18.8	We asked our tech subscribers what they think would be best for college football as a whole and what would be best for Ohio State, which might be the same thing but may not be the same thing.
1:29.8	So Nathan and Steven and I are going to go through like all the different scenarios and talk about what would it be like for the world and what would it be like for Ohio State under these different number of teams and at the end of this will come up with what we think is the best format.
1:47.8	And I will tell you having plugged in some past years and how things would have worked.
1:54.8	I have officially arrived at what I think is the best thing which I think is different from what I have previously thought I have a very concrete idea of what I think solves everything.
2:10.8	I have the dates, I have the sites, I have the teams, I have how they're selected.
2:17.8	It is practically infallible, which is I know that's everybody's favorite thing.
2:24.8	Oh, great.
2:25.8	Oh, it's a two-hour podcast.
2:26.8	We're Doug starting off by saying he has the answer to everything.
2:30.8	What fun this is going to be.
2:32.8	Oh, that's why that's wrong. You guys are wrong. My idea is the best.
2:35.8	It's going to be one of those.
2:37.8	But yeah, yeah, that's what we do.
2:39.8	So Steven, did you?
2:41.8	It's a day of the week.
2:42.8	It's a day.
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