(06-08-2021, 02:52 PM)OutsiderFan Wrote: Leave it to the College Football powers that be to come up with something nobody else really was advocating to have, with 12 team playoff.
I am offended. For years and years we were told "we can't extend the playoffs" because of classes, or injuries, or whatever. This 12-team format would mean FOUR WEEKS of playoffs. That's even more than March Madness...
Agree, plus the additional — I would argue biggest — scam of it all is that it’s designed to have Clemson, Ohio State, or an SEC team win every year.
It is ridiculous to make 8 teams play 4 playoff games, and to hand select 4 special teams that only have to play 3. Football isn’t basketball, you can’t just wind through brackets endlessly.
The specially selected 4 teams will have fewer injuries, and will get to sit back and scout their opponent’s playoff schemes for an extra week. Plus you know many of those four teams don’t play out-of-conference home and homes, they play 8 conference games and pay the rest of the schedule to fly to their home at a convenient time.
Either 8 teams or 16. And to reduce the ridiculous load on college student(?)-athletes, the regular season should be pruned to a 10 game season.