The Big Ten released a proposal on Friday of a 24 team playoff that is totally ridiculous.
College Football has officially gone too far.
On Friday, the Big Ten Conference submitted a proposal for a 24-team College Football Playoff that is too much.
I was firmly in the camp that supported Playoff expansion. The BCS system didn't fit the format of College Football, the Four Team Playoff was a step in the right direction but left a lot to be desired, and the 12-team playoff has felt the closest to right that we have ever been.
Originally, I wanted one more round of expansion to 16 teams. That seemed to make a lot of sense to even it all out and eliminate the byes from the first round. However, after seeing this proposal, the 12 team playoff is the maximum amount of teams in the playoffs.
The proposed 24-team format is just too much. Looking at the teams that would have gotten in as seeds 15-24, they simply don't deserve a chance to play for a Championship.
In the regular season, teams such as Utah, USC, and Iowa proved that they are not capable to win the Championship when each one of those teams lost to several playoff teams.
Utah fell to Texas Tech by 23 points, USC and Iowa both lost to Oregon, and that's just three of the teams at the bottom of the bracket.
The biggest result of the 24-team playoff is that it completely negates the regular season. If it becomes acceptable for teams to have three and four losses and still make the playoffs, then what is the point?
Teams play 12 regular-season games, and if they are able to lose 25 to 33 percent of their games and still make the playoffs, then the regular season becomes unimportant.
Furthermore, we have seen in the last two playoffs that not every team in a 12-team playoff is capable of winning the title. Blowouts have been a part of every playoff, even the four-team tournaments, but no one is interested in seeing James Madison play Oregon on the road. Similarly, no one cares about watching Tulane get beaten by Ole Miss by 31 points.
In this proposed format, there would have been six or seven of those games this past year, and it begs the question: What's the point?
As the saying goes, "hogs get fed, pigs get slaughtered," and it feels like college football is inching closer to the latter. At some point, college football has to start fixing all of its real issues and not just adding games to the Playoff.
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