New College Football Playoff format approved, future CFP models & what happens to Notre Dame?
College Football Enquirer
Yahoo Sports
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger & SI’s Pat Forde kick off the podcast analyzing the new approved format for the College Football Playoff, which will have five automatic qualifiers and seven at-large bids. There is already much discomfort from the SEC & Big Ten about the amount of automatic qualifiers, but we finally have an expanded 12-team playoff. The cast breaks down who wins in this scenario & why the top two conferences are already grasping to get more power.
Where does that leave Notre Dame though? The private, conference-less university has been in the middle of the spotlight when discussing the new CFP format. In this new design and without a Power Five (or Power Four) conference to call home, if Notre Dame were ever to be a top-4 team to receive an automatic qualifier, they would forego the first-round bye for the fifth seed and take on likely a Group of Five qualifier.
Afterwards, the guys debate why proposals for an additional two teams in the playoff is madness, and look back to how we got to this point where a 12-team playoff has been approved, and the CFP is already looking to blow up the bracket for a 14-team version before the first games have even been played.
To close out the show, residents in West Virginia are hosting a candlelight vigil for a restaurant.
1:00 - New 12-team CFP format has been approved
15:04 - What happens to Notre Dame in the expanded playoff?
28:34 - New 14-team CFP models are already being pitched
59:20 - The People’s Court: A unique candle light vigil in West Virginia
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show we talk about the 12 team playoff format being set and how they're already trying to expand it. |
| 0:07.0 | Plus, a candlelight vigil in West Virginia. |
| 0:18.0 | Time now for the college football Inquirer with Dan Wetzel. |
| 0:22.0 | No Hooters in West Virginia. |
| 0:24.0 | Wow. |
| 0:25.0 | Joe Manchin's wasted time working on NIL. |
| 0:28.0 | Let's deal with the issues that really hit the people of West Virginia. |
| 0:31.0 | Ross Galenjair. The Alliance still remains. people of West Virginia. Ross Gellinger! |
| 0:33.4 | The alliance still remains the most disappointing and somewhat destructive force impacting the post-season of college football. |
| 0:47.0 | And S.I's pad 40. |
| 0:51.0 | However, there's plenty of fresh sit here. |
| 0:54.0 | We're past the original sin. |
| 0:56.0 | We got fresh sin. |
| 0:58.0 | Start with simply the logic. |
| 1:01.0 | Here's Pat Russ and Dan. |
| 1:05.0 | I welcome the pod. Playoffs. |
| 1:08.0 | We got a new playoff plan finally approved for two years and now they're already trying to switch it up. |
| 1:14.6 | We're jumping off one cliff before landing and then planning our next jump off the |
| 1:19.0 | cliff. Without seeing. Before that I don't want to wait to the end to say this we'll talk about at the end this is the last show that we will have producer Sean Anderson with us |
| 1:29.3 | Distressing to all of us fantastic fantastic work, service to the pod. |
| 1:35.4 | Sean, great service to a really important need |
| 1:39.2 | in this country is someone to organize the three of us |
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