This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.
The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Sacred_Tomato on 2023-08-22 15:51:43.
On Colin Cowherd’s “The Volume” podcast just last night, he paraphrased SEC commissioner Greg Sankey’s thoughts that given what’s happened with CFB realignment thus far, that a 12 team format is no longer viable and at minimum CFB needs to be 16 team playoff preferably 24. Some key takeaways from his podcast
- CFB needs “March Madness” style playoffs because there’s too much money being left on the table.
- Nobody cares about 95% of bowl games and nobody shows up to these “dreary, small town bowls that nobody attends anyway”(his words). These bowl games are optically bad, players don’t want to play in them.
- Fans like stories, and they always want to cheer for stories. So CFB needs to take a page from CBB and have a “dramatic, long playoff” to cap off the season. “It’s the icing to the cake. CBB’s primary issue is that the cake isn’t good anymore.”
- Unlike CBB, where players can be 1 and done and not play if need be, CFB will “maintain a high level of integrity, competitiveness, and quality because players have to stay in school typically a minimum of 3 years, sometimes 4-5”.
- CFB quality will remain high, “ive never bought into the argument that expanded playoffs will kill rivalries. Really? You’re telling me Duke UNC isn’t big? Or that you’re gonna choose saints vs falcons over Bama vs Auburn? Get out of here, I don’t buy it”
What are your thoughts?