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How Will the New College Football Playoff Format Affect Drew Allar’s Ability to Complete a Pass to a Receiver?
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New rules for the 2025 CFP:
How will this affect Drew Allar’s ability to complete a pass to a wide receiver? We shall see! Not even a Penn State dig. Honest to god. We were pulling for them over the Domers. Well, I was. Pagan wasn’t. But that third down pass at Nick Singleton’s knees was a killer in particular, and if Allar had been even 5% better on the evening, PSU would have been in the Natty. The rest of the team played well enough to beat Notre Dame, but he didn’t.
Getting things back on topic, there was much hemming and hawing about the playoff setup this past season. Penn State had to go through SMU and Boise State to get to the semifinal. Oregon had to play Ohio State. Some people argued that PSU, despite being the Big 10 runner up, got an easier path despite not having a bye.
If straight seeding was in place a few months back, we would have had this in the first round:
- #12 Clemson at #5 Notre Dame
- #11 Arizona State at #6 Ohio State
- #10 SMU at #7 Tennessee
- #9 Boise State at #8 Indiana
And then the four byes would have gone to Oregon, Georgia, Texas, and Penn State, in that order, so two byes each to the Big 10 and SEC. Oregon and Penn State would have been on the same side of the bracket, with UGA and Texas on the other.
Moving forward, this opens the door to Notre Dame getting a first round bye, because you’re removing the conference champion requirement. The way things were set up previously, ND had agreed to a stipulation in which they could not finish top four.
Is this better or worse than the previous setup?
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com