re: Jim Harbaugh: How come a 16+ team playoff works for other sports but not Division 1-A CFB?

This is too much unless you shorten the regular season and no thanks to that.

At most, do a 6 team playoff that is similar to the NFL playoffs, and give the top 2 a bye, but then you get people crying about that too.

Look, I'm not a 16 team guy, but it is kind of weird/ridiculous that the best college sport farms out its post-season when the NCAA runs every other sport.

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The best part about college football is that every game matters.

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Not really. Once you've lost 1-2 games the rest really don't matter except for some mediocre bowl. In fact, the large majority of college teams' recent and upcoming games don't matter, they're out of it.

Jim would like that because he could lose to every good team on his schedule and get in the playoffs every year with a 9-3 record. It’s a stupid idea because how will they determine the teams? Over the last 10 years 7-5 SEC teams have been beating up on 8-4 or 9-3 teams from other conferences. That’s the reason they are pushing this idea. Not all 3 loss teams are created equal.

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Does Jim Harbaugh want to become the Steve Kerr/Greg Popovich of college football with these takes? I mean holy crap what a diversion tactic from how his team isn't resembling the dominance of last year's squad and is no longer relevant in the playoff chase.

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I don't understand the comparison with Kerr and Popovich especially since you argued a diversion from the team's performance when they would just certainly not be applicable to Kerr and Popovich.

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Every other sport you can think of

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Must have missed this part of the college swimming season.

Fcs football should strive to become fbs, but never the fricking opposite.

The part that kills me is you could have the higher seed get 1-2 extra home playoff games at the end of the year. Think how incredible that would be. All kinds of intriguing matchups would occur, schools rake in the dough on extra home games, etc.

Needs to happen.

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The best part about college football is that ALMOST every game matters.

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It’s also the worst part of college football. So many teams can just check out by now with only 10-15 realistic opportunities to make the Four. I mean we watch cause the college game is awesome, but the season is over for 90% of FBS.

I think 8 is the proper number. Enough for every game to still matter heavily yet just enough wiggle room for those 2 loss teams in late October and November to stay invested in maybe pulling off a miracle stretch to finish the season.

He just knows his team's will never be top 4

If the current CFP has shown us anything it is that only two teams belonged there. Look back each year. 2014, the Alabama-Ohio State game was for the championship. Oregon blew out Florida State, and Ohio State blew out Oregon. 2015, neither Oklahoma nor Michigan State belonged, as they were both BTFO. 2016, Ohio State and Washington again were BTFO. This year, we'll probably get the same result. Including 16 teams is just ridiculous.