College Football Playoff Expansion Debated: Who benefits, what model works best and more (06/09)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew discusses the many options for the CFP’s future. First, reaction to the momentum for a 12-team model (4:00) and whether expansion is better or worse for the sport when it comes to determining a champion (15:00). Then, the potential of upsets in an expanded playoff (23:30), debating the value of fan delusion (29:00) and how much impact conference championship weekend should have in the playoff selection process (34:00). Finally, does all this change suggest college football needs fixing (39:30) and other playoff models that could wind up emerging as the CFP leaders negotiate the future of the college football’s postseason (49:00).
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| 0:29.9 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:38.9 | Kennell, and Bob Elliott. It's your call for the best college football coverage from National |
| 0:45.3 | Signing Day to the National Championship and everything in between. CBS Sports presents |
| 0:52.1 | the Cover 3 podcast. And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's |
| 0:59.8 | Tom Fernelli. That's Danny Kennell. That's Bud Elliott. I'm Chip Patterson. Wild week |
| 1:05.2 | of news at the NCAA level at the college football level. We've got the moving pieces. It |
| 1:11.1 | always happens around June in July. Obviously, we start to have media days, turn our attention |
| 1:15.9 | towards the season ahead. But right now, things are shifting. We will get into the news that |
| 1:21.8 | has come out about the potential future of the college football playoff. There's some |
| 1:25.4 | transfer news that stood out. And as we're sitting here, Danny, I know you've got C-SPAN |
| 1:30.0 | 3. You know, you always have C-SPAN 1 or 2 on in the background for all the Cover 3 podcasts. |
| 1:35.9 | But the name, image, and likeness hearings are going on right now. Mark Emert is in Washington, |
| 1:41.0 | DC. The senators are weighing in. Have you gotten any highlights so far from the early |
| 1:46.3 | parts of the proceedings here on Wednesday? Not a ton. I did get past one is the Senate |
| 1:51.4 | hearing on US policy on Belarus. Two is the US Senate, just general discussion, I guess. |
| 1:57.4 | Oh, to continue debate on President Biden's nomination of Zahid Kwarashi to be the US district |
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