Rich Clark met with the media on Wednesday to discuss the expanded playoff with the first committee rankings set to be revealed on Nov. 5.
The College Football Playoff will reveal its first edition of the 12-team playoff rankings on Tuesday, Nov. 5.
As such, CFP executive director Rich Clark met with the media on Wednesday ahead of the first playoff rankings, which will debut next week. Plenty is known about the playoff's structure and how it will work, but some unknowns remain about what criterion the committee will find important, how teams will be seeded, and more.
Clark did his best to clarify some things as he was peppered with questions on a Wednesday conference call with the media. In the four-team playoff, teams were often penalized for losing their conference title game, which is something that Clark doesn't forsee happening quite as often now that the bracket has expanded.Additionally, there have been concerns from college football fans about how seeding would be impacted if the committee looked to avoid regular season or conference championship game rematches in the playoff.
One final point that had yet to be addressed by the committee was how it would determine which quarterfinal or semifinal bowl game teams would go to if they advanced past the first round of the playoff. Clark had a frank response on how that would be handled, telling the media that once the selection committee sets the final playoff bracket following the conference championship games, it will also set the bowl locations for the quarterfinal and semifinal games that teams will attend.
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