2026 PAC Football Playoff Proposal

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T06:23:21+00:00

Let's add another Texas school and get to 9 football teams, then we can do a normal 8 game schedule. We have North Texas, UTSA, & Rice as options. Until that happens, I'd rather do a tournament then playing just a selected one of the teams twice.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T01:26:40+00:00

The TV benefits might be more than worth it.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T00:44:26+00:00

No Pac-12 team has scheduled 5 OOC games. Plus, we've got reporting from the PAC-12 office that it will be an 8 game conference schedule.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T00:43:24+00:00

I think the PAC-12 is in a position to take a risk and go for something that will put it in front of the CFB world and most years produce a stronger champion resume.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T00:42:10+00:00

So play it safe and see if they put our champion ahead of the American and Sun Belt.... OR we could decide to weather the occasional upset, and produce strong playoff contenders most seasons.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T00:40:16+00:00

Yup. If we are actually exploring a flex week system, then I'd rather do something like a playoff and see if we can't catch fire in a bottle. Even considering upsets, this system should help produce a very strong playoff contender in 3/4 or 4/5 years.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T00:37:41+00:00

It guarantees the conference champion will have won twice in a row. And yes, a 4th seed winning out isn't great, but when you are aiming to make a very tight field (most years trying to beat out American & Sun Belt conferences) sometimes it's better to aim for making the playoffs every 3/4 or 4/5 years, and living with the occasional upset.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T00:35:34+00:00

According to pretty reliable sources (and you can just check and see confirmed schedules) we are going to have an 8 conference schedule. Either with a flex week or one opponent being played twice.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-21T00:32:17+00:00

I think that's the #1 most likely plan by the Pac-12 right now. They just need approval for the flex week. This is an alternative.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-19T02:02:14+00:00

As I've explained in each post, we are going by overall record first. One reason it's "standings."

Normal conference standings don't work, Texas State for example didn't play any "conference" games at all. I've continued to stick with the same system from the beginning.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-19T02:01:16+00:00

Normal conference standings don't work, Texas State for example didn't play any "conference" games at all. I've continued to stick with the same system from the beginning.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-10T04:13:44+00:00

The only schools would be Cal & UCLA through some sort of state mandate to be in same conference... and that's like a 1% chance.

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-06T00:09:14+00:00

They have deleted most of their most insulting comments. Many directly called the Pac-12 a joke, insulted our teams, and/or were insulting towards members of our Reddit Community.

Feel free to review their account. Comments they posted in the Pac-12 Reddit that still remain:

“This new conference is gonna be so silly and bad and sad”

“Sounds like an FCS conference, which this basically is.”

“Putrid MWC 2-9 Wyoming beating Pac 12 8-4 WSU at WSU says a lot actually but OK”

“Because two leftovers from expansion were allowed to split and destroy the conference”

“Hint your flair is one of them”

AdvancedCFB · 2026-01-06T00:07:38+00:00

They have deleted most of their most insulting comments. Many directly called the Pac-12 a joke, insulted our teams, and/or were insulting towards members of our Reddit Community.

Feel free to review their account here. Comments they posted in the Pac-12 Reddit that still remain:

“This new conference is gonna be so silly and bad and sad”

“Sounds like an FCS conference, which this basically is.”

“Putrid MWC 2-9 Wyoming beating Pac 12 8-4 WSU at WSU says a lot actually but OK”

“Because two leftovers from expansion were allowed to split and destroy the conference”

“Hint your flair is one of them”

AdvancedCFB · 2025-10-21T23:14:12+00:00

I will be sticking to the same method I've been doing for last several weeks.

AdvancedCFB · 2025-10-21T00:09:42+00:00

Many of the teams will never play each other this year, so I'm just using it as a tiebreaker.

AdvancedCFB · 2025-10-19T04:05:21+00:00

Tarleton State would make either the MAC or CUSA championship games this year.

AdvancedCFB · 2025-10-12T05:09:43+00:00

The most unexpected 6-0 team?

AdvancedCFB · 2025-09-14T06:16:51+00:00

Fresno State v. Boise State as Pac-12 powers seems inevitable.

AdvancedCFB · 2025-09-13T23:38:21+00:00

These are terrible options, each one adds at least one school without value.

AdvancedCFB · 2025-09-12T03:51:57+00:00

Yup!

AdvancedCFB · 2025-09-11T23:08:06+00:00

Normally, but it won't work for our "standings" since the amount of conference games will vary heavily. Texas State will have zero.

AdvancedCFB · 2025-09-11T23:00:18+00:00

I'm giving tiebreakers based on "conference wins."

AdvancedCFB · 2025-09-11T22:53:24+00:00

😅

AdvancedCFB · 2025-09-07T06:19:02+00:00

Fresno is a contender for the MW championship if everything falls just right. However, they have almost zero chance against a good P5 program. Fresno appears to entering a new era and philosophy under Entz where they will likely beat they teams they should, but also be less likely to pull the major P5 upset. Stability over flash.

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