FCS 12 GAME SEASON PROPOSED
Put the playoffs back to 16 teams and finish before Christmas, cowards.
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Nah 24 teams only means one more weekend. Go to 16 and the SoCon has only one team a year plus nothing wrong with more football.The Jackal wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 8:23 amPut the playoffs back to 16 teams and finish before Christmas, cowards.
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It's one more weekend of poorly attended games mostly populated with teams that have virtually no shot of competing for the title and then tacks on weeks to the end of the season as we wait for the national title game after the new year.apaladin wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 2:18 pmNah 24 teams only means one more weekend. Go to 16 and the SoCon has only one team a year plus nothing wrong with more football.The Jackal wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 8:23 amPut the playoffs back to 16 teams and finish before Christmas, cowards.
No byes. Play legit title contenders right off the jump. Finish before Christmas.
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So how many of the 16 have a shot? More football is a good thing. Every game is meaningful, win and advance, lose and go home. Every team has a chance albeit small. Who cares about attendance? The way you are thinking they should just take the top 4.The Jackal wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 2:50 pmIt's one more weekend of poorly attended games mostly populated with teams that have virtually no shot of competing for the title and then tacks on weeks to the end of the season as we wait for the national title game after the new year.apaladin wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 2:18 pmNah 24 teams only means one more weekend. Go to 16 and the SoCon has only one team a year plus nothing wrong with more football.The Jackal wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 8:23 amPut the playoffs back to 16 teams and finish before Christmas, cowards.
No byes. Play legit title contenders right off the jump. Finish before Christmas.
Sixteen is the magic number. There are less than 16 good FCS teams. Every other team is just playing mediocre football and does not deserve a playoff bid.
16 eliminates the bye week and forces you to play a top 15 or so team right off the jump in the playoffs.
Montana State was the #1 seed last year and didn't face a top 15 team until the 3rd round.
Then let’s just go to the top teams in all sports. Just take the champions in the power conferences in baskeball, 3 games and done. Who wants to watch all that basketball anyway? NFL just take the top 4, done in a week. NBA same. Who wants to watch one and done games. BTW since 2005 in FCS 22 unseeded teams have reached the semi-finals and 4 have made the finals. 16 teams wouldn’t be too bad if you eliminated about 4 or 5 auto bids which is not happening. Right now 16 teams would mean 5 at large which would all be taken by the top two conferences. If you want to eliminate byes go to 32.
Yes, there is some balance between taking every team and just letting NDSU and SDSU settle it in a winner take all game.apaladin wrote: ↑Thu May 08, 2025 11:42 pmThen let’s just go to the top teams in all sports. Just take the champions in the power conferences in baskeball, 3 games and done. Who wants to watch all that basketball anyway? NFL just take the top 4, done in a week. NBA same. Who wants to watch one and done games. BTW since 2005 in FCS 22 unseeded teams have reached the semi-finals and 4 have made the finals. 16 teams wouldn’t be too bad if you eliminated about 4 or 5 auto bids which is not happening. Right now 16 teams would mean 5 at large which would all be taken by the top two conferences. If you want to eliminate byes go to 32.
They need to reduce the number of automatic bids and at large bids.
In 2023 automatic bids went to Drake and Duquesne, who lost by a collective score of 106-10 in the first round. There were six Missouri Valley teams selected. A team that finished .500 in their own conference got selected to play for a national title.
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Looks like FBS may be expanding too.
https://fbschedules.com/support-growing ... f-bracket/
https://fbschedules.com/support-growing ... f-bracket/
I don't there is not a single one of us who ever put a hand in the dirt or ran it or threw it or caught it or kicked it who would not play one more game.
Giving these guys one more game is a good thing. It should help the economics too, one more game of ticket sales when the sunk cost of fielding a team is already dialed in.
Playoff... same concept probably. Putting more product out there gives more guys a chance to play in a playoff and generates more revenue for many revenue starved FCS schools.
You do have to counter that with academic stress and the risk of injury etc. But more games actually makes more sense for FCS than FBS IMO.
Giving these guys one more game is a good thing. It should help the economics too, one more game of ticket sales when the sunk cost of fielding a team is already dialed in.
Playoff... same concept probably. Putting more product out there gives more guys a chance to play in a playoff and generates more revenue for many revenue starved FCS schools.
You do have to counter that with academic stress and the risk of injury etc. But more games actually makes more sense for FCS than FBS IMO.
Excellent post Monte! People should look at these type of things from a players, coach, and team point of view and not personal preference. Every one of us would definitely want another game/chance no matter the odds.