These 32 Teams Can Make The Playoff

Gators a longshot but are at least on the list

CFP 2025: 32 teams can make the College Football Playoff

 

Bill, In have a feeling we will be surprised at the end of the season?

 

Who's not on that list?

 

FSU for one

 

Hope it’s a good surprise for the Gators

 

We play 5 of the top 13.

 

Well we have two easy games to start th season.

After that a tough schedule

 

Bump...they whiffed badly on a few of these...

 

Bill, let me tell you, who you play doesn’t matter. How many losses is all that matters.

 

Also when you lose.

 

That's one huge difference between Pro playoffs and college. All that matters is your record. It doesn't matter who or when you lost.

 

Yeah also there are only 32 teams to worry about and 14 of them make the playoffs. That would be the equivalent of about 50 college teams in a playoff.

 

What??? The Pros have playoffs??? I'll have to check into that. (Said the Browns fan).

 

I don't know KP, the current CFP top 25 has a bunch of exceptions to that. We have 2 loss teams ranked ahead of 1 loss teams and in some cases 3 loss teams ranked ahead of 1 and 2 loss teams. Seems to me that wouldn't happen if they were only looking at losses, gotta be additional factors they are considering

 

Out of the top 15, BYU is the only exception. It’s unlikely that someone outside of the top 15 will be in the CFP unless it’s like last year. Clemson, SMU and someone else made it because they either won or played in their conference championship game.

 

That's certainly one exception so they obviously do look at other factors but there are other teams that could very well factor into the mix with several games left remaining on the schedule. Pretty sure our mutual friend BobDa would agree

 

I guess BYU is the exception because their SOR is so high. With 12 slots, 5 slots automatically go to the 5 highest ranked conference champions. Now assuming the committee repeats its intentions to not punish a team for losing a conference championship game, that means up to 10 of the 12 slots can be taken before anyone else is considered. In any case, 5 slots go to the 5 highest ranked conference champions and the other 7 are supposed to go to the highest ranked teams after that. Teams ranked higher than #15 will certainly be long shot, but I guess there is always hope. Last year, we were ranked #11 and didn’t make it.

 

For sure who ever is #12 is going to get screwed by whoever is the Group of 5 rep. There is a possibility that if Miami doesn't win out and get the ACC auto bid, that #11 will also lose out.

One other thing, what if USC wins out? beating Oregon this weekend. They could finish 10-2 just like Oregon and ND. Will USC get a bid and will that mean either ND will be jumped by USC? Big 10 a 4 bid league?

It's complicated.

 

If Oregon beats USC, they have to travel to Seattle to play a good Huskies team. If they lose to Washington, their chances of making the playoffs would be dead.