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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/libelecsGreyWolf on 2024-01-09 05:54:57.
We move onto an expanded playoff field, which will likely make regular season defeats less devastating for national championship hopefuls. There’s also the potential (potential) for fewer or less serious controversies about who’s in and who’s out and where the playoff-bound teams are ranked vs. only four make it and you only play one game before the final. Those things have defined college football since the BCS era.
It’s also the end of the Pac12, the end of the BigXII as a big-time conference and next season is the first season of the “Superconferences” era. Having to play USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington every other year will certainly feel weird. I suppose the same is true for SEC teams playing Texas and Oklahoma or ACC teams playing Stanford and Cal.
I’m not going to mention NILs or the transfer portal because we’ve already seen the effects of those this season, though I’m sure the tighter control Disney will have on the sport through the Superconferences will make this situation “worse” (as in, make it change faster).
I don’t know, now that the high is gone I feel like watching the finals of the 1990 FIBA World Cup, knowing full-well that that Yugoslavian team would be no more soon.