Extra campus video games? Big 12 commish says ‘all the things is on the desk’ in relation to playoff reboot

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — While followers trickled into the Orange Bowl stadium for a quarterfinal the place tickets had been going for as little as $39, the commissioner of the Big 12 mentioned “everything is on the table” in relation to rebooting the College Football Playoff, together with probably shifting extra video games onto campus.

The commissioners have till Jan. 23 to determine what the playoff will seem like subsequent yr. Expansion from the present 12-team format and computerized bids have been the 2 greatest headlines in that dialogue, although the thought of conserving extra video games on campus will consider.

“We have to examine that, too,” Brett Yormark mentioned Thursday, a few half-hour earlier than kickoff of the quarterfinal between Texas Tech and Oregon. “Operationally, can we do it? The first-round games have been fantastic in every respect. I think it’s a differentiator.”

Under the 12-team format, now in its second season, first-round video games involving the fifth by twelfth seeds have taken place on the campus of the better-seeded group. The remainder of the rounds are at conventional bowl websites, with this yr’s remaining coming to Miami Gardens.

Oregon’s 23-0 win over Texas Tech kicked off in entrance of hundreds of empty seats at Hard Rock Stadium. The Ducks traveled 3,200 miles to get to Miami and can subsequent head to Atlanta for the semifinals within the Peach Bowl. If they return to South Florida for the ultimate on Jan. 19, they’ll journey round 17,500 miles within the span of three weeks.

“This is a playoff. A playoff in my opinion should’ve been played in Lubbock, Texas,” Oregon coach Dan Lanning mentioned. “There are a lot of people who do playoffs. Playoffs have looked a certain way for a long time. We’re trying to serve two purposes here. The amount of time between games, obviously it’s tough for teams. We experienced it last year.”

Including Oregon’s loss final yr (within the Rose Bowl after a bye) and Texas Tech’s loss on Thursday, groups with first-round byes within the 12-team playoff fell to 0-6 with two quarterfinals left. Yormark mentioned the game’s “clunky” calendar — a difficulty that encompasses lengthy layoffs, the switch portal and an ever-moving teaching carousel — is one other situation the commissioners will focus on.

There has been a large hole between the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten visions of what the following iteration of the playoff ought to seem like. The SEC sees a 16-team subject stuffed with at-large bids; the Big Ten has pushed for a subject of 16 or extra with extra computerized qualifiers.

Under phrases of the settlement that goes into play subsequent yr, the opposite two Power Four conferences — Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conference — are presumed to not have decision-making energy in what comes subsequent, although Yormark insisted “we have a big voice in that room.”

Yormark wouldn’t chew on the query when requested whether or not Group of Five conferences nonetheless belong within the match. Counting the first-round losses by Tulane and James Madison this yr, these groups have misplaced by a median rating of 41-19 over two seasons.

“Everything’s on the table and, and hopefully we’ll be very thoughtful about it, and if there’s change, we’ll announce it in due time,” Yormark mentioned.

Commish says disputed CSC settlement will get signed

Yormark additionally mentioned issues conserving colleges from signing the participation settlement despatched out by the brand new College Sports Commission are being resolved, and he expects the 68 Power Four groups to signal the contract quickly.

Various state attorneys normal told their schools not to sign the settlement the fee despatched out in November. Among the problems had been that it stripped universities of their proper to authorized motion concerning selections the CSC makes.

Yormark says the settlement is being reworked in a means that each one the colleges can signal it so, as he mentioned, “we’re all signing up for the same rules of engagement.”

“But one person’s opinion is, you don’t need a piece of paper to enforce” the principles, he mentioned.

In a separate interview with The Associated Press earlier this week, Texas Tech head of regents Cody Campbell additionally mentioned he suspects the settlement will get signed, although he’s undecided it would have any affect.

“I don’t think it’s going to be that helpful in terms of creating any kind of stability,” mentioned Campbell, who wish to see Congress arrange a very new entity to run school sports activities. “And it’s going to be challenged in court, already is being challenged in court, and it’s not going to go well for the CSC.”

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