Anyone else excited about the idea of a 12-team College Football Playoff possibly getting here in time for 2023 season? Conference realignment and SEC expansion may have superseded buzz surrounding the widening of the Playoff system in the coming years, but the landscape surrounding one of collegiate athletics’ most passionate sports is ever-changing and will not look the same as we once remembered.
We’re all about looking ahead at 247Sports and opining on how that may appear.
A sub-group of the Playoff’s management committee recently submitted its 12-team proposal, one we’ve further dissected in this piece. Outlining the new proposal, four highest-ranked conference champions would be seeded No. 1-4 and each would receive a first-round bye, while teams seeded Nos. 5-12 would play each other in the first round on the home field of the higher-ranked team.
Under the new Playoff proposal, the quarterfinals and semifinals would be played in bowl games and for this exercise, we’ve projected each of those matchups. The championship game would continue to be at a neutral site, as under the current format.
