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Should the playoffs include more than four teams? Why don’t we get rid of all the bowl games and have a bracket like basketball? We all hear the same arguments and horrible ideas of how college football postseason should be played each year. Does Michigan and Penn State deserve a playoff spot? Should the playoffs only consist of the major conference champions? Absolutely. Would the playoffs be more enjoyable if the system was like college basketball’s? Maybe. Does anyone care what you think? No, not even your mother cares about your opinion on this topic. She doesn’t. So, shut up, and pay attention. This platform generates higher ratings for networks and keeps the chaos within the college football season.
Now college football can’t have a playoff bracket like basketball for two reasons:
The March Madness bracket model would require the playoffs to start right after the conference championships. This brings up concerns on the physical well-being of starters and the ability for players to study for finals so they can stay eligible for the next season. These players are student athletes and if you don’t know what college finals are like then just go on social media for the first two weeks of December. (I get it, I don’t even need to show up to one class and I could get on the honor roll at Alabama every semester. But, we should not exclude all schools just because one of them is arguably the top dynasty program who has General Mad Dog Mattis as a head coach.)
The physical well-being of each player is at high risk. Playing 11-12 games takes a toll on players’ bodies and the exhaustion would begin to show around game 14. Oh, and don’t forget these studs have a chance to make MILLIONS of dollars after college. A five-star high school recruit, playing at a good SEC or ACC program, can tear up his knee his sophomore year because he got sloppy with his mechanics and fundamentals due to fatigue. Say goodbye to possibly being on NIKE commercials and say hello to the life of Deangelo Vickers.
Think that has never happened before? Would Malik Zaire start this season on the bench if he didn’t get injured last season against UVA? He’s not on any NFL team’s radar. Hell he’s not even on Dwight Shrute’s Gaydar at this point. Therefore, no Gatorade commercial of his left arm. The risk reward ratio of potential goats, like Jabril Peppers and Leonard Fornette, playing in a larger playoff system is equivalent to doing crack, it’s great for a the first few times then you realize the future is not going to be promising. The best-case scenario is you end up like my personal hero mayor Rob Ford.
Second reason, no one would care about watching the great teams playing until the sweet sixteen/Elite eight. Don’t tell me you would watch Tulsa play Ohio State and Toledo play Alabama. Kiss my ass! The ratings for last year’s college football bowl games and playoffs were garbage. People don’t even care about good conference teams that have an early season loss because they lost a chance of being in the top 5. Miami, Auburn, Florida, Tennessee, LSU, VT, Iowa, Texas A&M, Navy and Pittsburg all have four losses. Each one of those programs have the ability to break out a top caliber team every season. A loss in week 1 or 2 automatically heavily damages a team’s popularity. Most college football fans ignore them like the aggressive drunk meathead trying to start a fight at a bar while everyone else is just trying to have a good time and enjoy a few Frescas. Those bows are gonna cost you!An early loss certainly doesn’t mean that they are a bad team. Look how USC’s season turned out. A blowout loss to Alabama in week one, then they switched to a new starting QB and they finished in the Top 10.
Here is the reason for a change in today’s playoff system. Ultimately fans want teams to go undefeated all season to earn a chance to face the best teams of that season. That single factor is what makes college football astonishingly chaotic. Fans love the upsets. But if a team is ranked at number 7, then that team shouldn’t be in the discussion of being a top team in the country. The discussion of the top two best teams should never include more than six teams and that’s how the bracket should be made.
The process is easy, 1 and 2 have a bye. Number 2 plays the winner of 3 and 6 while the Top team in NCAA plays the winner of 4 and 5. This gives us 3 solid weekends of amazing football. But what about the rest of the bowl eligible teams? I would unquestionably keep Capital One Bowl Week games. Those are the games we all get drunk to because we are tired of playing board and card games with our family around Christmas time. Prime college football games. Capital One Bowl Week should stay the way it is because of the great conference matchups.
Lastly, would majority of fans enjoy a bunch of 4 loss teams be placed in a 8 or 16 team playoff bracket? Basically, a NIT? All the teams that would be playing in bowls before the Capital One bowl game week would be in this bracket. Y’all know what bowl games I’m talking about. The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, the Raycom Media Camellia Bowl, the Motel 6 Cactus Bowl, the Charlie Sheen Pharmacy Bowl and the DreamWorks Trolls Movie in 3D in Theatres Now Bowl. Only people watching those games are probably degenerate gamblers like Big Cat and Joe Biden.
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