MisterGopher
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This is a pretty complex description, so you should read the entire article.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...nges-necessary-with-expansion-on-the-horizon/
A lot of people have shared their ideas for what the ideal College Football Playoff should look like, and plenty have been good. Some even great. However, I've yet to find one that addresses all my concerns, and what I believe to be the concerns of the sport at large.
To be clear, I was never a fan of playoff expansion past four teams. Four teams was fine. There were rarely four teams good enough to win a national title in any given season to begin with, but this is a battle that has been lost. You see, the point of the College Football Playoff was never truly about determining the best team; that was simply icing on the cake. No, the primary reason was money. Money is the cake, so an incredible television product was needed that would bring in big brands, and therefore more eyes to the product.
So what I set out to do is create a postseason format that would serve both ends: determine the best team in the country and provide an incredible television product. And, to be clear, that great television product isn't simply for the postseason. No, my playoff format would increase the television product during the regular season as well. I'm guessing there will be aspects of it you like and some you don't. That's fine. There are parts of my proposal I'm not a fan of philosophically, but this is how it must be! In a sport with 135 teams who can only play one game per week, there is no perfectly logical way to determine a champion. If there was, we'd have been doing it all along.
When it's all said and done, though, I do believe my solution has enough to make everybody mostly happy.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...nges-necessary-with-expansion-on-the-horizon/
A lot of people have shared their ideas for what the ideal College Football Playoff should look like, and plenty have been good. Some even great. However, I've yet to find one that addresses all my concerns, and what I believe to be the concerns of the sport at large.
To be clear, I was never a fan of playoff expansion past four teams. Four teams was fine. There were rarely four teams good enough to win a national title in any given season to begin with, but this is a battle that has been lost. You see, the point of the College Football Playoff was never truly about determining the best team; that was simply icing on the cake. No, the primary reason was money. Money is the cake, so an incredible television product was needed that would bring in big brands, and therefore more eyes to the product.
So what I set out to do is create a postseason format that would serve both ends: determine the best team in the country and provide an incredible television product. And, to be clear, that great television product isn't simply for the postseason. No, my playoff format would increase the television product during the regular season as well. I'm guessing there will be aspects of it you like and some you don't. That's fine. There are parts of my proposal I'm not a fan of philosophically, but this is how it must be! In a sport with 135 teams who can only play one game per week, there is no perfectly logical way to determine a champion. If there was, we'd have been doing it all along.
When it's all said and done, though, I do believe my solution has enough to make everybody mostly happy.
