Thank god college football is adopting a true playoff format.
I'm writing this as Alabama and Notre Dame go to the locker room at halftime. It is 28-0. This is the game that decides who gets college football's biggest prize. Let's talk about some issues with the current ludicrous format.
-- What other sport lets you skip from the regular season to the championship game? The NHL, MLB, NFL, and NBA do not simply take the top two seeds and automatically place them in the finals. It makes no sense. The regular season should be about making the playoffs, not about making the championship. Totally takes away the thrill of a low seed going all the way in the playoffs.
-- Notre Dame is being slaughtered in this game. They are an excellent football team, but their perfect record was helped by a couple flukes. No offense to them, but they probably should not be in this game. If there were a proper playoff, they would have been knocked off well before the championship game.
-- They say it's because of the money. Why isn't there as much money to be had in a March Madness-esque playoff? It would be weeks straight of high stakes, win or go home, playoff football, complete with dramatic story lines and everything else that comes with playoffs. How is there not enough money to be made in that? It would probably get way more viewership overall, considering all the bowls that nobody has heard of.
-- And honestly, what fan could possibly prefer the current format over a traditional playoff?
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