The College Football Playoff Selection Committee met for preparing Wednesday. The prompt inquiry that should be posed: Training for what?
With the 2020 school football season possibly cut in two – at any rate for the time being – this week has given a ruthless update there is just a single trophy.
That is the CFP’s Gordian Knot right now: Who gets the opportunity to play for the national title with 77 FBS groups playing in the fall and upwards of 53 conceivably playing in the spring?
“I think it’s OK to ask the logical question whether [a champion crowned in either semester] is an actual champion,” Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby said.
Such a conversation is starting to rise. In the event that each of the 130 FBS groups are not contending without a moment’s delay for a title, is it actually a title?
One individual near the CFP proposed a fall champion versus spring champion game is presumably impossible. That would require the game to be played in the spring, three or four months after the fall champ had finished its segment of the period. Granting a trophy for every “semester” of football would be “reasonable,” as indicated by that equivalent source.
That would basically be a part national title, something the CFP has dispensed with and school football fans have not really observed since 2003 when USC completed No. 1 in the AP Top 25 and LSU won the BCS Championship Game.
The basic test for the CFP the executives advisory group (FBS chiefs and Notre Dame athletic chief Jack Swarbrick) is choosing to arrange a season finisher for one lot of gatherings at the avoidance of the other.
“If they decide at some point to push back in the spring, that would make it exciting to have a CFP. I still think we can do that,” said Ohio State coach Ryan Day, whose Big Ten is intending to play in spring 2021.
The CFP Selection Committee began Wednesday a two-day virtual gathering that concentrated on familiarizing the freshmen on the choice board. (Wyoming AD Tom Burman, Colorado AD Rick George and previous Penn State player John Urschel).
The 13-part board of trustees is normally accused of passing judgment on the value of the 130 FBS groups, yet those have been separated by years as well as by ways of thinking.
The Big Ten, Pac-12, Mountain West and MAC (in addition to three individual projects) – 53 absolute groups right now – would like to give it a go in the spring. The other 77 FBS groups are either anticipating playing in the fall or inclining that way.
Whenever held independently in either semester, that makes it almost certain a four-group CFP section would be vigorously weighted with one gathering. Just oce in the six-year history of the CFP have two groups from one meeting made the season finisher (2017, Alabama and Georgia).
“It’s too soon to say,” said CFP executive director Bill Hancock. “We will await direction from the management committee and stay flexible.”
In May, sources examined with CBS Sports the authenticity of a season finisher without all FBS groups partaking.
“It’s going to be a while into the season before it’s all resolved,” said Bowlsby, a member of that management committee.
In the event that there is a title, Bowlsby presented his defense for holding it in the fall: “They’re talking about playing in the spring. That doesn’t mean necessarily that there’s going to be football played in the spring. You remember what March, April and May was like this year and the virus was heavy upon us. That’s why I wasn’t a real fan of preemptively moving to the spring.”
In any case, the choice panel will have constrained information focuses to consider. Less, for the most part gathering games.
In the event that you need to burrow down further, seven of the 13 board of trustees individuals at present have occupations at FBS schools. The breakdown of those seven schools: four will play in the fall (Florida, Oklahoma, Georgia Tech, Arkansas) and three will go in the spring (Iowa, Colorado, Wyoming).
“We put 13 people in the room and ask them to do a very difficult job,” Bowlsby said. “I think, actually, their task is the same as it has always been. They just don’t have as many tools available to them.”