Additional Adjustments

With Only a 12-Game or 13-Game Schedule Only

If we want to only keep the 12-game or 13-game regular season schedule, we would have the following:

With Up to a 14-Game Schedule

If the regular season can be increased up to a 14-game schedule, this is how the regular season would look:

Week Before Thanksgiving Regular Season Finale

For this scenario, regardless of going to a 12-game, 13-game, or 14-game regular season schedule, here is how the regular season would happen when the week arrives:

First and Second Round Round Kickoff Dates

The First and Second Round Kickoff Dates would be the following

By beginning the postseason on Thanksgiving Weekend, we have a bit more flexibility on the kickoff times for the first round. We can have as many as 6-8 games kickoff on Black Friday. However, because Prime also streams an NFL Black Friday game as well, we also will have to consider the simulcasted local channels too depending on which team is playing.

First and Second Round Kickoff Times

The kickoff times for the first-round and second-round games would then be the following:

The later pairings are only possible if the following happens:

• At least one team seeded 1-8 from the Pacific and/or Mountain Time Zone advance to the second round
• At least one team seeded 9-16 from the Pacific and/or Mountain Time Zone advance and is paired with an unseeded team in the second round
• A pair of unseeded teams, where one of them is from Pacific and/or Mountain Time Zone; if the unseeded team from Pacific and/or Mountain Time is higher ranked, they would the designated host

Otherwise, if there are no teams from Pacific and/or Mountain Time advancing to the second round, then for the Thursday and Friday kickoffs, either Pair 1 or 2 would apply. For Saturday, the first pairing would apply.

Quarterfinal Kickoff Dates and Times

The quarterfinal kickoff dates and times would be the following:

Since the quarterfinals would happen on the second weekend of December, we don’t have to worry about the NFL here.

Overall Breakdown

If we have a 32-team field, plus those 39 leftover bowl games, we would have the following:

Further Breakdown

Here is a further breakdown if you are curious:

Adjusted Consolation Bowl Lineup

For the consolation bowl games in the adjusted 32-team playoff schedule, it’s almost back to the BCS days. However, bowls would be tiered based on the overall finish in the FBS playoffs. The tiers and tie-ins for each bowl game would be the following:

Basically, we have 15 consolation bowl games for any of the 30 teams that did not make it to the National Championship game. Three of the four oldest bowl games (Rose, Sugar, and Orange) all get the highest prestige in that they get the best teams who at least made it to the quarterfinals, but failed to either advance to the semifinals or advance all the way to the National Championship Game. Those three bowl games will rotate on whoever will host the 3rd place game in a 3-year cycle.

Overall Breakdown

This is what the overall postseason composition would have looked like if we implemented the consolation bowl games for playoff participants:

Further Breakdown

Here is a further breakdown if you are curious:

College Playoff Crown Bowl Lineup

The Quarterfinal and Semifinal rotation for the ACP and NCP would look something like this:

The Pinstripe Bowl and the Sun Bowl are absent from the table because the Sun Bowl would be an annual host of the American College Playoff Championship Game and the Pinstripe Bowl would be an annual host of the National College Playoff Championship Game.

College Playoff Crown Consolation Games

The College Playoff Crown would still implement consolation bowl games to teams eliminated in the first round. The consolation Bowl Games would be the following:

Here, the only games that would that would be standalone games are the Xbox Bowl and the Myrtle Beach Bowl.

Overall Breakdown

If we included the College Playoff Crown, the breakdown would look like the following:

Further Breakdown

Here is a further breakdown if you are curious:

CPC First Round and CPC Second Round (ACP and NCP Quarterfinal) Kickoff Dates and Times

The first-round and ACP and NCP kickoff dates of the Secondary Playoff System would look like the following:

CPC First Round and CPC Second Round (ACP and NCP Quarterfinal) Kickoff Times

The kickoff times for the CPC first-round and ACP and NCP quarterfinal games would then be the following:

CPC Quarterfinals: NCP and ACP Semifinal Kickoff Dates and Times

The kickoff dates and times for the NCP and ACP semifinal games would then be the following:

CPC Semifinals: ACP and NCP Championship Game and College Playoff Crown Championship NFL Dependency

If the NFL does eventually expand to an 18-game schedule and is flexible enough to move their two Saturday regular-season finale games to afternoon only, the kickoff for the final two rounds would look like the following:

For this scenario, the Sun Bowl would always kickoff on a Friday Afternoon. The second semifinal game would depend on whether the NFL Doubleheader would be in the afternoon or in the late-afternoon and night as well as the other FBS playoff semifinal. Here is when the Pinstripe game would happen depending on the NFL:

In addition, the National Championship game would kickoff on the first Friday of January (or the second Saturday of January if New Year's Day falls on a Friday).