Blake Toppmeyer
Columnist at Knoxville News Sentinel
Columnist at The Volunteer State
Senior National College Football Columnist for the USA TODAY Network.
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4 days ago |
usatoday.com | Blake Toppmeyer |John Adams
Battle lines are forming in the ongoing debate for the future of the College Football Playoff's format. The Big Ten wants to rig the playoff with a stacked deck of auto-bids. The Big 12 and ACC fight against that. The SEC hangs out in the middle, unsure whether to side with the Big Ten or the other power conferences. To rig, or not to rig? That is the question.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Blake Toppmeyer
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – The man with the tan came with a plan. Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin, his skin so bronzed he looked as if he just came off the sunny beach here, entered his session with reporters on Tuesday ready to pitch his idea for a 16-team College Football Playoff. Kiffin's playoff plan looks like this:Sixteen teams. Four rounds. No automatic bids. Every team must earn at-large selection. The selection process would involve analytics, combined with a human element.
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1 week ago |
dnj.com | Blake Toppmeyer
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. – The man with the tan came with a plan. Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin, his skin so bronzed he looked as if he just came off the sunny beach here, entered his session with reporters on Tuesday ready to pitch his idea for a 16-team College Football Playoff. Kiffin's playoff plan looks like this:
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Blake Toppmeyer
• The SEC cares so deeply for its rivalries. Enough to keep secondary rivalries on the long-term schedule? We'll see. • If SEC persists long term with eight-game schedule, that puts secondary rivalries like Auburn-Georgia and Alabama-Tennessee in jeopardy. A nine-game schedule format allows room to keep more key games. • The "Deep South's Oldest Rivalry" is long on history, but other rivalries have been much better for the past decade.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Blake Toppmeyer
• Tennessee is home to a rare quarterback competition inside the SEC. Most starting jobs are settled. • Is Gunnar Stockton the answer in Georgia? Spring game points to him leading the battle. Steve Sarkisian cleared up the quarterback drama at Texas in February when he announced Arch Manning as the Longhorns’ starting quarterback. Just kidding — there was no drama at Texas. Sarkisian's anointment of Arch equated to saying it’s hot in Texas in July. Thanks, we know.
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