Take a look at this year’s playoffs bracket. How many two teams don’t truly belong? While some might say Alabama, we all know that both James Madison University and Tulane will be blown out in the first round. These teams play in some of the easiest conferences in college football. Yet, the college football playoffs says that the best five conference winners get in the playoffs.
While teams like Notre Dame and Vanderbilt were left out of the CFP, we have these teams who are not battle tested, and will fail miserably against Ole Miss and Oregon, who have been phenomenal all year long. And now we are excluding two Heisman Trophy contenders from the playoffs, and letting frauds take their place. I don’t know about you, but I won’t be watching two blowouts in the playoffs, that’s not a true playoff game. But teams in like Notre Dame and Vanderbilt to play Ole Miss and Oregon, now that’s a matchup.
How do we fix this problem? Well, first thing is we stop with letting the top five conferences winners in. If I was the CFP, I would give the winner of the two highest performing conferences a guaranteed spot in the playoffs. And I would base this on the teams that made to the conference, their schedule and record, and the schedule and record of the other teams in the conference. So, SEC and Big Ten would have been those two teams. ACC and Big 12 still would have made it, only because Texas Tech and Miami had a playoff worthy record. Then, the other 10 are determined by their record, and strength of schedule. That why we have battle tested and battle proven.
How would you have changed the CFP and fix it? Let me know in the comments.
