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2026 CFP National Championship Date Announced


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11 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

I’ll be honest I was apathetic about the games by the semifinals round even though Texas was playing. Fatigued.  17 games is too many in college football. 

As a fan of the game, I felt like this was the best season ever.  Yes. Ever.

12 team playoff was delayed far too long.

I honestly don't know how someone could say, "I love college football, but that's too many weekends..."  Admittedly, I also like Major League Baseball, so my sports attention span might be permanently defective.

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3 hours ago, Iceman said:

As a fan of the game, I felt like this was the best season ever.  Yes. Ever.

12 team playoff was delayed far too long.

I honestly don't know how someone could say, "I love college football, but that's too many weekends..."  Admittedly, I also like Major League Baseball, so my sports attention span might be permanently defective.

The key for me is so many teams vying for spots has definitely increased overall interest. Even in the 4 team playoff it seemed like by about week 8-10 it was already decided except for rare collapse. Ratings being higher across the board even for the bowls that weren’t CFP proves this. Having the g6 auto bid also brings interest in from multiple teams at that level. 

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On 1/24/2025 at 1:23 PM, BurntOrange&White said:

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UT starts their long session in 2027 on Jan 11th.  So the championship game will be held two weeks into that spring semester.

CFP needs to conclude football season before the spring semester starts at most schools or commit to spending the money to fly everyone involved to playoff games.

At Texas, Longhorn Band and cheer and the other student orgs get to go to these games, which is a fantastic opportunity for the students ... but they are being bussed to these games, which takes an extra day or two before and after the games.

It was hard for the students to do this for the SEC championship during fall finals week, but they did it.  It would be difficult for them to be bussed to Atlanta at the end of the fall semester and then miss chunks of the spring semester if Texas was still playing.

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0. labor day is the monday after the saturday that is forever week 1

1. play an fcs game you shall, if only in week 0 it is

2. thou shalt not play an fcs team on labor day weekend (the prior wednesday) or later

3. an fcs win shall not count towards 6 wins needed for a bowl

4. thou shalt not schedule a bye week after your 2nd game in november UNLESS you are playing your rival on T+1 in which case the bye must be scheduled for the prior weekend

5. thou shalt not schedule a bye week until you have played 3 conference games

6. thou shall only schedule a bye week when your next opponent shares that date for a bye

7. thou shall schedule no more than 2 byes after labor day weekend

8. the army-navy game shall kick off on T+1 at noon eastern and no other fbs game shall kick off before 3pm eastern on T+1

9. conference title games shall be played the following friday & saturday

10. the playoff shall be 16 teams with no byes and 8 on-campus games played on the thursday and friday 12 or 13 days after the conference championship games

11. the quarterfinals shall be played at rotating neutral sites on the thursday and friday before the last nfl regular season weekend

12. the seminfinals shall be played at a site agreed to by each of the teams involved on the thursday and friday before the nfl divisional playoff weekend

13. the final shall be played on the saturday after the nfl conference finals, i.e. the week before the superbowl

14. the final shall be broadcast on an over-the-air 'free' network with a kickoff time of no later than 4pm eastern

15. the "ny6/cfp" bowls shall feel free to maintain their brands when they bid on the quarterfinals, but they don't get to host in consecutive years

16. the "ny6/cfp" bowls shall feel free to maintain their brands should 2 semifinal teams choose to use that bowl's 'traditional' venue but shall have no involvement in the organization or operations for that semifinal game

17. the "ny6/cfp" bowls shall not be permitted to use their brand should their 'traditional' venue successfully bid to host the final

18. the final may be played outdoors only at the rose bowl or in jacksonville, orlando, tampa and/or miami

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Your #8 is not a bad compromise. It is already an all day affair to get the cadets there in time for the 2:30 kickoff, what with the march-on and pregame ceremonies.  Noon might be tough.  When it's down in DC/ Baltimore( Army) or Foxborough/ East Rutherford( navy) it would suck.

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6 hours ago, Iceman said:

As a fan of the game, I felt like this was the best season ever.  Yes. Ever.

12 team playoff was delayed far too long.

I think it sucks.  I went just as I and all the detractors said.  The sport that was unique for valuing its regular season is now just like every other American sport.  Ohio State went 0-2 in their 2 game schedule and are the MNC.  It won't be long before we have a 3-loss champion.

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Just now, WBT said:

I think it sucks.  I went just as I and all the detractors said.  The sport that was unique for valuing its regular season is now just like every other American sport.  Ohio State went 0-2 in their 2 game schedule and are the MNC.  It won't be long before we have a 3-loss champion.

Fuck the beauty pageant aspect.

Play it out on the gotdam field.

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1 minute ago, WBT said:

I think it sucks.  I went just as I and all the detractors said.  The sport that was unique for valuing its regular season is now just like every other American sport.  Ohio State went 0-2 in their 2 game schedule and are the MNC.  It won't be long before we have a 3-loss champion.

The same would have been said about Texas.  Notre Dame lost to NIU (lol).  Etc....

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On 1/26/2025 at 3:39 PM, WBT said:

I think it sucks.  I went just as I and all the detractors said.  The sport that was unique for valuing its regular season is now just like every other American sport.  Ohio State went 0-2 in their 2 game schedule and are the MNC.  It won't be long before we have a 3-loss champion.

"MNC".... why? It's just a regular championship now.

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On 1/26/2025 at 2:39 PM, WBT said:

I think it sucks.  I went just as I and all the detractors said.  The sport that was unique for valuing its regular season is now just like every other American sport.  Ohio State went 0-2 in their 2 game schedule and are the MNC.  It won't be long before we have a 3-loss champion.

So what?

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On 1/26/2025 at 2:39 PM, WBT said:

I think it sucks.  I went just as I and all the detractors said.  The sport that was unique for valuing its regular season is now just like every other American sport.  Ohio State went 0-2 in their 2 game schedule and are the MNC.  It won't be long before we have a 3-loss champion.

Good. Fuck the old ways. This is the most legit champion college football has ever had. Not including us in 2005. 

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On 1/26/2025 at 1:39 PM, WBT said:

Ohio State went 0-2 in their 2 game schedule and are the MNC. 

They were 1-1 against CFP teams….and then got revenge on the loss. 

Chill out, Nancy 

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On 1/26/2025 at 1:44 PM, Hagbard Celine said:

0. labor day is the monday after the saturday that is forever week 1

1. play an fcs game you shall, if only in week 0 it is

2. thou shalt not play an fcs team on labor day weekend (the prior wednesday) or later

3. an fcs win shall not count towards 6 wins needed for a bowl

4. thou shalt not schedule a bye week after your 2nd game in november UNLESS you are playing your rival on T+1 in which case the bye must be scheduled for the prior weekend

5. thou shalt not schedule a bye week until you have played 3 conference games

6. thou shall only schedule a bye week when your next opponent shares that date for a bye

7. thou shall schedule no more than 2 byes after labor day weekend

8. the army-navy game shall kick off on T+1 at noon eastern and no other fbs game shall kick off before 3pm eastern on T+1

9. conference title games shall be played the following friday & saturday

10. the playoff shall be 16 teams with no byes and 8 on-campus games played on the thursday and friday 12 or 13 days after the conference championship games

11. the quarterfinals shall be played at rotating neutral sites on the thursday and friday before the last nfl regular season weekend

12. the seminfinals shall be played at a site agreed to by each of the teams involved on the thursday and friday before the nfl divisional playoff weekend

13. the final shall be played on the saturday after the nfl conference finals, i.e. the week before the superbowl

14. the final shall be broadcast on an over-the-air 'free' network with a kickoff time of no later than 4pm eastern

15. the "ny6/cfp" bowls shall feel free to maintain their brands when they bid on the quarterfinals, but they don't get to host in consecutive years

16. the "ny6/cfp" bowls shall feel free to maintain their brands should 2 semifinal teams choose to use that bowl's 'traditional' venue but shall have no involvement in the organization or operations for that semifinal game

17. the "ny6/cfp" bowls shall not be permitted to use their brand should their 'traditional' venue successfully bid to host the final

18. the final may be played outdoors only at the rose bowl or in jacksonville, orlando, tampa and/or miami

There were only 15 commandments. 

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