The ACC is toying with the idea of changing who plays in the ACC title game. They are thinking about letting the regular season champion have a bye and having the 2nd and 3rd place team have a playoff. That way they would send the regular season champion and the playoff champion to the playoffs.
Changes to ACC playoff
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The easier solution is to just do away with the ACCCG game (and other conference championship games) completely. Then you could expand the playoffs to 24 teams, with the 8 highest ranked teams getting byes.
Please no rankings.
I never liked 1vs2 simply because if 1 beat 2 during the season, then 2 Beats 1 in the CG, they split. Why is 2 the champ? Or, what if 1 wins the league by 2 games over 2. 2 Beats 1, but still trails by a game. Why is 2 the champ? I think you should only have a title game if two teams are tied and they haven’t played during the season.
I’d be okay with taking the top 24 based on win percentage, but I doubt you’d get buy-in from the SEC or Big Ten for that. Unfortunately, their opinion matters the most under this new playoff format.
Well, you can be assured that the additional ACC game, if it happens, will be played in the great state of North Carolina.
Yeah but in that scenario, it seems you are more likely to get a true #1 vs #2 than what we saw in the CFP. I think most people would think we would get the greatest game played all season and no matter what you do, you may never get that, especially I think in the CFP. I think you'll see more instances of what happened to Georgia. Their QB got beat up through a more difficult regular season than say a team like Indiana and because of injury Georgia wasn't able to defend their title.
