College Football Enquirer co-hosts Andy Staples and Steven Godfrey discuss what a hypothetical college football playoff could look like without any conference championship games. Check out the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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So two games- Yep for two spots.
Yep.
So instead of Dayton, why don’t you just use Mercedes-Benz?
Oh, the first four.
Atlanta’s the easiest city in America to get to, right?
Could you W- well, could you make it Okay, let’s make it four games.
Let’s, let’s, let’s do 16 teams.
And look- Okay I, I realize we’re, what we’re doing is creating a 20-team playoff- But the t- but I might be okay with that we’re, we’re also trying to engineer a television window.
Right, right, exactly.
So we do four games.
Yes.
Which would be one on Friday, three on Saturday.
I want people to visualize this.
Mm-hmm.
Your college football s- like, y- y- let, let’s not even mess with the front of it right now.
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That’s a whole other segment.
Let’s just say, Labor Day weekend and there’s a week zero of somebody’s getting beat up in Ireland, whatever, okay?
Mm-hmm.
You have your beautiful, wonderful regular season.
Rivalry Thanksgiving is now the end, right?
Okay.
You go into your rivalry game, you play your rival, your regular season has concluded, so if Alabama wins the SEC, just in, just in terms of the table, as the Brits say they get to hoist some trophy there in, in, you know, Auburn or Tuscaloosa or what have you.
The next week, the top end of the bracket, what you’re proposing, they got a week off, all right?
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Yeah.
So your Alabamas, your Oregons, right, whoever’s at the top, Notre Dame, whatever.
Not playing.
Yeah.
Okay?
The only other concession that we have to make, we’ve killed, by the way, I’m talking about, we’ve, we just killed all the conference championship games.
Yes.
I’ll deal with the group of six.
Don’t worry, I’ll make some phone calls.
Okay.
We Oh, they’re all gone.
They’re all gone.
So there’s no MAC championship on like a Friday night.
None, none of that.
It’s all done.
You still have to handle Army-Navy, so that’s the only wild card, right?
Because that is, that, that’s like technically a Heisman week game right now.
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Right.
So you would have to handle H- you would have to maybe Army-Navy slots that day at like a locked time in, in Philly or Baltimore, something like that.
I don’t know.
Yeah, we can give them that afternoon.
And then, and then we play, you’re saying four games.
I was saying one Friday, three Saturday, but we don’t have to do it that way.
No, we could do one Friday, three Saturday, then include Army-Navy somewhere in the mix.
Mm-hmm.
And then you know that’s a pretty easy tradition to build a- as well.
Yeah.
How fast- It’s still, it’s still some football in between these- Oh, it’s, it’s not some football, though.
Think about it.
That’s, that’s- Still an iconic football game that’s dramatic football- Yeah Andy.
Yes.