Joel Klatt Reveals Massive Agreement Impacting Ohio State once 24-Team Playoff is Official

The 24-team College Football Playoff has a near-zero percent approval rating. I'm not kidding; I cannot recall a decision that has been made that quite literally everyone is in agreement on one side of.

When the postseason went from the BCS to the CFP, there were people on both sides. When it expanded from four teams to 12, many were largely in favor, with some naysayers. As it has been rumored to expand from 12 to 24, quite literally no one is in favor of it.

There are many reasons for it, including the total devaluation of the regular season, the complete insurance for teams that lose, the removal of the conference championship games, and the fact that there are not 24 teams that can win the title. The list goes on and on.

There is one strand of silver lining, however, with all of this going on.

It was revealed on Thursday by Fox's Joel Klatt that he believes the moment that the 24-team College Football Playoff is announced, so too will the Big Ten-SEC scheduling agreement be right in tow. 

Now this, this is interesting. 

One of the dumbest arguments that exists in sports is the Big Ten vs. SEC debate over which one is better. Ohio State is always at the center of attention whenever this gets thrown around because they carry the water for the Big Ten.

That argument gets thrown out the window for good if what Klatt is saying is true.

The details of what that scheduling agreement would be are still undisclosed at this point, so I'm not sure what it would look like, and the following is pure speculation. 

If it is an agreement that teams get slotted into tiers where Tier 1 is teams that finished first through third in the conference, Tier 2 is teams fourth through sixth, Tier 3, Tier 4, and so on. Then, they are matched up with a team from the other conference in the same tier, so it is an even game; that would be incredible.

The potential for this is truly endless. Make it a full weekend where the Big Ten vs. SEC is the main attraction. Tier 4 games kickoff at noon, Tier 3 go at 2:30, Tier 2 goes at 3:30 and then Tier 1 go at 7:30.

Could you imagine that Saturday? The entire world of college football was locked in for the first round of "who's better" before the College Football Playoff.

If it is true, this would be the one silver lining positive outcome of the 24-team playoff. Everything else about it can be thrown in the trash.