Remember When The Expanded Playoff Was Gonna Ruin CFB?

[ToddStrong]

I surely would've been watching Wyoming vs Boise if it was the BCS or four team era. Imagine how much better it's going to be when you have a team in the fight. Like a two loss Nebraska vs two loss Iowa.

 

[FissionReaction]

No 2-loss team should have a shot at the title. Expanding the playoffs to 12 teams was a mistake.

 

[ToddStrong]

I'm watching the 17 the ranked Tulane vs Memphis. There's a slim chance Tulane could be ranked higher than the Big 12 champion.

 

[V-Doub]

I never thought that and argued the opposite whenever someone would say that. Just for the record…

 

[SickOfPractice]

It's NIL & the Transfer Portal that will ruin college football. I'm not smart enough to know how to regulate either one so they're less destructive to the game, but some limits are needed for each.

 

[TarheelHuskerFan_rivals]

No 2-loss team should have a shot at the title. Expanding the playoffs to 12 teams was a mistake.

Now that conferences are so large, yes they should. Teams play too many good teams to go undefeated

 

[realHuskerDrew]

Pretty much no one said it would ruin anything. No one.

And yeah, an 8 team playoff would actually have been better.

I don’t mind though.. more games the better

 

[ToddStrong]

https://syndication.bleacherreport....-expand-the-college-football-playoff.amp.html

 

[ToddStrong]

The Number 5 reason from the 2019 article. Notice who was against the expanded playoff. Dabo and the SEC.



"The end of the season would be even more watered down."

The SEC championship clash between LSU and Georgia? Who cares, both teams are comfortably in the playoff field regardless of the outcome.

Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney may have put it best while talking to Heather Dinich of ESPN:

"Everybody focuses on the playoff games and the national championship. The way we have it right now, every game we have, especially once we were positioned, every game was a playoff game. Every game. Duke was a playoff game. South Carolina was a playoff game. Pitt was a playoff game. We have layers of playoffs. The more you expand, the less the season matters, especially if a team so-called already in the playoff, well, now you're going to have people not playing guys, just like you have in all these other sports. All of a sudden, games don't matter because everybody is just playing for the playoff and they're in. What we have is the best of both worlds."

The week-to-week intrigue suffers considerably if an eight-team playoff format is adopted, and that's a big part of what makes college football so special.