re: Who's ready for a 28-team playoff in CFB?

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Personally I prefer the old way where the regular season was essentially the playoffs.

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I was a long time proponent of a CFB playoff and I'll readily admit I was wrong.

I prefer the old system. No matter how subjective and silly it was, it made CFB one of the most exciting sports out there.

College football had the greatest season in sports. Lose one game and it might be over for you. It made you live and die by it every week. But we had a few holier than thou losers here, y’all know who they are, who said it was awful and needed to be changed.

LSU can lose to Alabama, Florida, and Auburn and still make the playoff? Why watch the games.

I used to tune in every single week and watch starting with college game day. I was glued to the tv until the pac after dark games. In recent years I’ve tried to stay up with my team’s game and usually the other big matchups of the week. And now, if this shite passes you can bet I’m gonna start spending my fall Saturdays doing something else. Because there’s no longer a reason to spend over 3 hours (maybe even 4 hrs with ads) watching at least 6 games of the regular season

I’m done; nuke it all. Hard reset to the 00s: no NIL/portal, bring back the BCS.

I don’t care anymore that it screwed us out of a natty in 11. It also gifted us one in 07.

Post-2020 CFB is an abomination.

Love that gif

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Who's ready for a 28-team playoff in CFB?

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Once again, money ruins what was once cherished.

It's the ugly side of capitalism.

Lol no. The BIG doesn't have 7 playoff teams on a consistent basis to agree to this. The SEC probably does, but it's still an awful idea.

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College football had the greatest season in sports

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That's right. They even had the best slogan: EVERY GAME COUNTS

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Lose one game and it might be over for you.

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Well, that was part of the problem. There was a core group of 3-4 programs that played by different standards on and off the field. They could pay players, everyone knew it, and get away with it. They could lose games and those games would not count against them at all. In fact, losses magically turned into win with stupid shite like "they eye test".

CFB is and always will be a beauty contest with the media determining who wins. The playoff was always destined for this due to the media having to force in their favorite teams.

We altered the BCS when two media darlings failed to win their games.
We dropped "every game counts" when a media darling failed to win their conference three times, and were forced into the playoff.
We dropped a team out of a playoff after an unbeaten season and replaced them with a media darling due to an injury. Something that never would have happened to said media darlng had they had an injury.
Now we have to expand the playoffs so more media darlings can make it.

How no one pays attention to these patterns is beyond me.

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It's the ugly side of capitalism.


Not exactly.

Capitalism <> “money grabbing free for all with no rules or structure”. That’s the “money problem” here. Everyone is bending, contorting and screwing the sport sideways to get paid. It’s anarchy not capitalism.

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I wouldn't call it anarchy. There are rules and regulations. I would call it greed, which as I said is the ugly side of capitalism.

For those pining for a return of the BCS how to do you handle 2018 and 2019? Both seasons had 3 undefeated teams. 2018 most will easily write off Notre Dame. But 2019 who gets left out? The reigning champions were the 3 seed. There is no world where the defending champions go undefeated and get left out that doesn’t cause a massive revolt.