Should we expand the College Football Playoff to 8 teams or not?
On October 16th 2013, college football announced that they would do away with the very controversial Bowl Championship Series (BCS) and adapt the new College Football Playoff. The College Football Playoff is made up of the top four teams at the end of the season playing in two high ranked bowl games respectively. The match ups for those two playoff games are set by number 1 playing number 4 and number 2 playing number 3. The Playoff had a terrific first year with Ohio State winning it all after beating #1 ranked Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. With that win the Buckeyes advanced to take on and defeat the #2 ranked Oregon Ducks in the first College Football National Championship. The problem with this CFB Playoff is that it only has four teams. Four teams in my mind is too few of teams. It needs to expand to 8 teams now. Reason being that it will help both TV ratings and schools. If you have the conference champion from the SEC, BIG 10, BIG 12, PAC 12, ACC, and then the first two teams who have either an undefeated record who didn't win conference championship or has a 1 loss record and put them into a 8 team playoff you would for sure have an interesting field for sure. As of now if you look at the rankings and predicted who would win the conference championship you would have these 8 teams advancing to the CFB Playoff: Clemson (ACC), Alabama (SEC), Ohio State (BIG 10), Oklahoma (BIG 12), Stanford (PAC 12), Iowa (BIG 10, Undefeated Record) and Oklahoma State (BIG 12 will have 1 loss after losing to OU). An 8 team playoff is much better than a 4 team playoff because it gives us match-ups that we regularly that we wouldn't see in the regular season. As a huge fan of College Football I would love to see this happen in the near future. It would boost TV ratings, School exposure and the all important MONEY!!!
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