I think the reality is that if a 12 team playoff comes into effect the non-playoff bowls are irrelevant. Good luck getting players to play in those or fans to be interested. Sad. I always felt like the traditional bowl system and the BCS were both great. I could tolerate the College Football Playoff but didn't think it was an improvement. Now the system will be such that the season is a failure for 92 percent of the country. That kind of high stakes works in professional sports in which there is parity (or the playing field can be manipulated to push toward parity), but I find it an odd, soul-less, dispiriting step for an enterprise like college football. If the same 20 teams are competing for the 12 slots every year, that does grave damage to college football for the vast majority of the country.
I suppose my hope is that a 12 team playoff will create a race to the top so to speak and teams like Stanford will double down on football in the hopes of getting into the top 12. In other words, maybe the playoff itself helps create parity as teams gun to get to that level. But that's more hope than prediction. I doubt a 12 team playoff will be an improvement.
I suppose my hope is that a 12 team playoff will create a race to the top so to speak and teams like Stanford will double down on football in the hopes of getting into the top 12. In other words, maybe the playoff itself helps create parity as teams gun to get to that level. But that's more hope than prediction. I doubt a 12 team playoff will be an improvement.