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Playoff Contract

ragtimejoe1

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I mentioned this in another thread but thought it warranted a separate discussion unrelated to MWC expansion. Has the current playoff contract been renewed? My understanding is that it runs through the 2025 season. To me this is a big question for the future of college football. Has it been renegotiated for an extension? If so, for how long? If not, when do negotiations begin?

If I've missed the contract extension, my apologies; this thread would be ended.
 
I'm not sure on the contract length, but this is the last season of a 4 team tournament. The new format begins next year (2024) - 12 teams, top 4 get a bye.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/35155431/college-football-playoff-expansion-need-know
 
New format:
- 12 teams: 6 highest ranked conference champs and 6 highest ranked at large

- Top 4 conference champs get a bye

- Of the remaining 8 that play in the first round, the highest ranked teams get a home game.

- The 4 first round winners then face the 4 conference champs with the bye in the quarterfinals held in 4 of the existing new years 6 bowls.

- The semi finals are then in the other 2 existing new years 6 bowl locations.

- The championship site will be based on cities bidding for it like they do currently.
 
I've been able to find a few things that say it ends after the 25 and another said 26 season. They've all said it will likely be issued to a few networks and could be north of 2 billion.per year.

The difficulty is it's only 12 games which limits the number of media partners (will 12 games change?). The other thing to watch is it eliminates the importance for conference championship games for the best p5 conference(s). There will be games where only seeding in the playoff matters. However, someone like the sec would be better off devising a system to help get more of the 3rd-6th place teams in and forgo the championship game (mini-playoff for top 4 teams besides conference champ? Conference champ crowned by regular season). I don't know what the system would look like but I'll bet they figure it out.

The playoff contract discussions will be interesting to folllow. If the split is coming, it makes sense that it would happen when the playoff contract is renewed. That's why the big10 and sec are doing what they are doing. Could they get they get the right teams in and absorb all that playoff money? 2 billion over 60 schools is just over 33 million in just playoff money :eek:

Maybe they don't even need 60?
 

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