The college football playoff committee announces it's moving to a five plus seven model,

and this can be very good for the Big 12 conference.

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rating and review. Appreciate you doing that. So here's what happened. This would have been on Tuesday of this

week. College football playoff board of managers unanimously revised the criteria for the 12

team playoffs set to start this season. Effectively what's going to happen is you're going to

have a 5 plus 7 model instead of a 6 plus six model. The plan when the pack 12 was a

conference was to have the six highest rated conference champions make the playoff and then six at

large teams. Well the pack 12 doesn't exist. So now it's going to be five conference champions, the five highest ranked

conference champions. So basically the power four, SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and Big 12, and then a group

of five champion, plus seven at large teams. So that was the right move with the Pact 12 basically ceasing to exist.

What are you going to do? Give Washington State or Oregon State a spot in the playoff

every single year. I mean, the Pact 12 doesn't exist. So it makes sense to do it this way.

And for the Big 12, if you're a Big 12 fan, this does open up another potential spot for a Big 12 team to make the

playoff. So I'm excited about this. Now, you can be a Debbie Downer and you can say, well, this is just

going to give the SEC like their fifth team. And that's possible. Not going to lie. That's possible.

But what it really does for the big 12 is it opens up, I think, a second team for the

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