Legendary college football coach Urban Meyer explains why he likes 14-team CFP system

College shot saw its archetypal expanded playoff strategy successful 2024, with the Ohio State Buckeyes winning it each implicit Notre Dame successful the end.

However, the strategy was criticized by many, starring to treatment astir however to hole it. At the aforesaid time, expanding the playoffs adjacent much was ever a paper connected the array arsenic well. 

Speaking of Buckeyes, Urban Meyer, the ex-college and NFL caput coach, made an quality connected Fox Sports’ "The Herd with Colin Cowherd," wherever helium said helium would beryllium a instrumentality of the 14-team College Football Playoff format. 

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Urban Meyer, the ex-college and NFL caput coach, said helium would beryllium a instrumentality of the 14-team College Football Playoff format. (Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images)

"I’ve really done a small probe connected this," Meyer said, via Awful Announcing. "It’s a 4-4-2-2-1-1 format. I cognize it’s retired determination a small bit, but I did a small diving into it, and of each the ones I’ve heard, it makes the astir sense. It’s a 14-team playoff. Now, there’s going to beryllium a large caveat successful that, the Big 12 and ACC are going to beryllium pissed."

Why does Meyer judge 2 of the Power Five conferences volition not beryllium blessed with this format? Well, this connection for a 14-team playoff would person the SEC and Big Ten each getting 4 automatic bids. An at-large squad and the highest complaint Group of Five squad would get successful arsenic well. 

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"Here’s the champion happening — it takes it retired of enactment and much into access," Meyer explained. "So, the enactment committee’s going to beryllium wrong. It’s an imperfect system. It’s been that mode since the BCS. I similar the thought you play into it. …It does not penalize you. If I’m a manager successful the existent model, I americium not playing a pugnacious squad successful the aboriginal portion of the season. That’s going to wounded my team."

One of the main qualms astir the existent CFP strategy was teams successful conferences similar the SEC and Big Ten having tougher opponents than others, particularly astatine the commencement of the season.

One of the main qualms astir the existent CFP strategy was teams successful conferences similar the SEC and Big Ten having tougher opponents than others, particularly astatine the commencement of the season. (IMAGN)

With automatic bids, there’s little hazard successful losing aboriginal successful the play erstwhile reasoning astir playoff chances. 

"If you spell connected the conferences grip the access, the Big Ten gets 4 (teams). You’re darn close I’m going to play Texas due to the fact that I privation to situation my team. It’s large for recruiting. It’s large for our fans. It’s large for the crippled of football, and it volition not penalize me. If I inactive triumph the Big Ten, I’m the No. 1 seed."

Meyer is lone 1 of galore inserting their sentiment astir this matter, with others similar SEC Network apical expert Paul Finebaum believing car bids would beryllium "completely wrong" for the game.

Meyer is lone 1 of galore inserting their sentiment astir this matter, with others similar SEC Network apical expert Paul Finebaum believing car bids would beryllium "completely wrong" for the game. (Kirk Irwin/Getty Images)

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"Doing our amusement yesterday, adjacent SEC fans were calling in… saying they don’t similar it," Finebaum said. "There’s thing inherently incorrect astir stacking the platform earlier the season."

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