"Well the College Football Playoff is going to be the greatest sports spectacle," said Steak Shapiro. "Better than the NFL playoffs. As good as March Madness. We're gonna sit back and wonder how did we never not have that."
That was Steak's take on Wednesday's The Steakhouse on the new CFP schedules for the '24 and '25 seasons that were released yesterday.
In short, get ready for more football.
With the expansion, the field will now be 12 teams in the CFP, the four receiving first-round byes. In the opening-round matchups, higher seeded teams will be able to play in their home stadium. The games will be then played in New Year's Six stadiums, starting with the quarterfinals. We'll have games starting a week before Christmas, and three games on each New Year's Day.
If implemented last season, you'd have a first-four matchup of (9) Tennessee at home against (8) Kansas State, (12) Tulane on the road at (5) TCU, (11) Penn State on the road against (6) Ohio State in Columbus, and (10) Southern Cal in Tuscaloosa vs (7) Alabama.
"What we're not going to have is the same four teams in the playoff," Steak told Rusty Mansell this morning. "We're gonna have upsets, injuries, home games, one-and-done's.
"We're going to have more games that matter."
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