The format for the upcoming 2024 College Football Playoffs is officially set. The College Football Playoff Board of Managers announced on Tuesday a revision to the qualifying criteria for how the 12 teams will be selected.
The format is now the five highest-ranked conference champions and the next seven highest-ranked teams as determined by the CFP committee.
“This is a very logical adjustment for the College Football Playoff based on the evolution of our conference structures since the board first adopted this new format in September 2022,” said Dr. Mark Keenum, President of Mississippi State University and Chair of the CFP Board of Managers in the release sent out on Tuesday. “I know this change will also be well received by student-athletes, coaches and fans. We all will be pleased to see this new format come to life on the field this postseason.”
The previous format included the six highest-ranked conference champions and the next six-highest ranked teams.
According to the release, here’s how the format officially shake out: “Under the 12-team playoff format that begins this fall, the four highest-ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four and each will receive a first-round bye, while teams seeded five through 12 will play each other in the first round on the home field of the higher-ranked team. (The team ranked #5 will host #12; team #6 will meet team #11; team #7 will play team #10; and team #8 will meet #9.) The quarterfinals and semifinals will be played in the New Year’s Six bowl games, the national championship game will continue to be at a neutral site. No conference will qualify automatically and there will be no limit on the number of participants from a conference.”
Yes, a bunch of BS.OSUPSYCHO said:
It's not bs now that the PAC is gone. This format means it will be the same as they originally planned with the expectation that the champs of the now power 4 get in plus one group of five champ. If they let it the old way another group of 5 champ would have gotten in or even the winner of the PAC 2 ( while it still exists that is).
Well that will probably be a very small part of it as most of the slots will be AQ slots, so the final 3 or so slots chosen by the polls is not a big deal.backphil said:
The biggest mistake they are making is to NOT remove the committee voting for rankings and DO replace the rankings with a BCS-esque computer program. Voting needs to go the way of the do do bird. Of course, between voting and the pimping of SEC and B1G teams by FOX and ESPN, there will perennially be only one Big 12 and ACC team in the playoffs and Notre Dame will get in every year.
