{"id":346557,"date":"2025-12-13T15:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346557\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T15:09:09","slug":"vanderbilt-qb-diego-pavia-details-how-he-would-alter-college-football-playoff-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/346557\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia details how he would alter College Football Playoff format"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vanderbilt<\/a> quarterback and Heisman Trophy finalist Diego Pavia<\/a> led the Commodores to their best seasons in program history this year. Vanderbilt finished the regular season with a 10-2 record, marking its first 10-win season ever. However, it wasn\u2019t good enough to get the program into the College Football Playoff for the first time.<\/p>\n

The \u2018Dores landed at No. 14 in the final College Football Playoff Rankings, behind No. 13 Texas<\/a>, No. 12 BYU<\/a>, and No. 11 Notre Dame<\/a>. If it were up to Pavia, play-in games would have been conducted to ensure that these four programs also had a crack at making a run in the College Football Playoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would move it to a 16 (team Playoff) and then put play in (games),\u201d Pavia said on Friday morning\u2019s edition of \u2018First Take\u2018. \u201cSo\u00a0you\u2019d\u00a0have those four teams on the bubble and\u00a0you\u2019d\u00a0do play-in (games), like how the NBA does it. I would do something around those lines to make sure\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0getting the best teams in the College Football Playoff.\u00a0That\u2019s\u00a0what the people want to see. They\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0want to see these teams get beat by 25-30 points.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, they want to see those close games come down to the last drive of the game. I think\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0better for the NFL to see \u2018Is this guy clutch in clutch moments?\u2019 Or \u2018Can he play at this level?\u2019 And I think eventually\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0going to move to a spot where that\u00a0does\u00a0it for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diego Pavia claimed that Vandy\u2019s history was used against them in College Football Playoff selection process<\/p>\n

Diego Pavia is Vanderbilt\u2018s first-ever quarterback to be named a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. Prior to Thursday\u2019s selection show, no Vanderbilt quarterback had even finished within the Top 10 of Heisman Trophy voting. Pavia is more than well-deserving of the award, as he passed for a program 3,192 yards this season. He was responsible for 36 touchdowns and is no doubt one of, if not the best, players in program history.<\/p>\n

Prior to the College Football Playoff Selection Show, Pavia claimed that his Vanderbilt program wasn\u2019t getting the respect it deserved due to the logo on its helmet. From 2014-2023, the Commodores compiled a horrific 36-83 record across nine seasons. From Pavia\u2019s perspective, the committee had not yet wiped that stigma away from the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure,\u201d Pavia responded when asked if\u00a0Vanderbilt\u2019s history hurt their case. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s the biggest thing why we\u2019re being punished. If we had another logo, we\u2019re in the College Football Playoff, no question. And I think if you put everyone\u2019s resume on a piece of paper and slid it out to the teams on the bubble, they\u2019re choosing ours every single time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alas, the \u2018Dores were left out of the 12-team field and will instead clash against No. 21 Iowa<\/a> in the ReliaQuest Bowl. With a win, the program would cement its first 11-win season ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt quarterback and Heisman Trophy finalist Diego Pavia led the Commodores to their best seasons in program history…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[125269,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":["post-346557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-diego-pavia-20-volcano-vista","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ncaafootball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}