Putting on the Breaks……. Thank you, I Just Knew There Just Had To Be At Least SOMEONE With A Brain
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2021 11:04 am
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The financial gain for having an outsized competitive advantage in a 12-team playoff would seemingly be minimal. Under the current contract, each Power Five conference gets $66 million per year from the CFP. Conferences get $6 million in additional funds for each semifinal berth and $4 million for a New Year's Six bowl berth.
What's of greater concern is a possible reshaping of college sports overseen by SEC and ESPN.
As proposed, an expanded playoff would include the top six ranked conference champions with no automatic bids. The top four ranked teams would receive first-round byes.
However, Sankey has raised the idea of accepting the 12 best teams, regardless of conference titles.
"Should we just say the 12 best teams?" Sankey proposed. "I've been asked that by our own membership."
Under the current contract, each Power Five conference gets $66 million per year from the CFP. Conferences get $6 million in additional funds for each semifinal berth and $4 million for a New Year's Six bowl berth.
Per the CFP, it would take a unanimous vote of the conferences to approve playoff expansion. Could one conference refusing to play along scuttle the entire plan?
"We manage by unanimous consent, but it isn't going to fall apart on that basis, I don't think," Bowlsby said. "I don't think people want to have a situation where most of the strength is in one area."
However, as one administrator pointed out, it's a complete unknown what the media rights landscape will look like in five years. The general assumption is that the CFP will double in value to $1 billion per season. That could skyrocket with multiple bidders in the mix, including streaming services.
"Streaming is the future," Kliavkoff said.
If the contract were open to bid, it could further be maximized by placing each level of the playoff on a different network.
Not so much the actual expansion itself, but how there seems to be a bum rush towards it.
Derek wrote:Not so much the actual expansion itself, but how there seems to be a bum rush towards it.
I completely agree with this point.