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HWA

For now, they're the opposite of dead. To get a bye, you need to win conf.

Posted: 01/02/2024 at 12:30 PM ET
(In response to this post by Roanokie)

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The playoff games
zosohokie • 01/02/24 09:53 AM ET
It’s fun until playoff opt-outs become a trend
lawhokie • 01/02/24 11:22 AM ET
yep. It's going to happen sooner rather than later.**
reestuart • 01/02/24 12:11 PM ET
Exhibitions are all the bowls have ever been.
OldRetiredHokie • 01/02/24 12:00 PM ET
Bowls were different and the culture was different pre-BCS/CFP.
Maroon Baboon • 01/02/24 01:02 PM ET
With a 12-team playoff, conference championship games will soon be dead.**
Roanokie • 01/02/24 11:55 AM ET
For now, they're the opposite of dead. To get a bye, you need to win conf.** ◄
HWA • 01/02/24 12:30 PM ET
Now that the conferences are eliminating the divisions, there may come a
VTHokie2000 • 01/02/24 03:27 PM ET
I'm not so sure...
HokieBoy • 01/02/24 12:55 PM ET
You're not so sure a team/coach would want a Bye in 12-team playoff?
HWA • 01/02/24 01:04 PM ET
That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure**
OldRetiredHokie • 01/02/24 12:33 PM ET
They absolutely will not be. Win and you’re in. **
DownSouthHokieGA • 01/02/24 12:28 PM ET
I thought they were part of the brackets
OldRetiredHokie • 01/02/24 12:03 PM ET
Here is something I found about the 12-team format
Roanokie • 01/02/24 12:12 PM ET
Haven't bowl games always been exhibitions?**
Beerman • 01/02/24 11:54 AM ET
Yes, absolutely!**
OldRetiredHokie • 01/02/24 12:01 PM ET
Exactly**
HokiePokie95 • 01/02/24 11:38 AM ET
Until the opt-outs make it unwatchable**
HokiePokie95 • 01/02/24 10:39 AM ET
I wonder what FSU's opt outs would have been in the CFP.
Truthahn • 01/02/24 10:54 AM ET
FSU had been pretty quiet since they got smoked by 60. **
GreenvilleVT • 01/02/24 12:29 PM ET
Give them a few days, they need to think of more BS legal arguments.
HWA • 01/02/24 12:41 PM ET
Don’t worry. FSU is going to have company
GreenvilleVT • 01/02/24 01:00 PM ET
It isn't so much the lawsuit, it's the half-ass arguments.
HWA • 01/02/24 01:18 PM ET
I think F$U is a perfect fit in the AAC
sacramento hokie • 01/02/24 12:58 PM ET
Sure, but the Orange Bowl showed ..
OldRetiredHokie • 01/02/24 12:13 PM ET
I'm really not so sure - we will never know.
VPI_1998 • 01/02/24 09:54 PM ET
Of course. **
Pride_and_Joy • 01/02/24 11:52 AM ET