For seven years now, we’ve all agreed to refer to a four-team competition as a “playoff.” College football’s two-round championship is technically a tournament, sure, in the way that Vatican City is technically a country.The four-team invitational has been so tiny and exclusive, its name—the College Football Playoff—has always felt sarcastic.
Under the proposal, the 12-team tournament would include automatic bids for the six highest-ranked conference champions, and since there are only five power conferences—the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC—this would guarantee at least one playoff spot for a nonpower champ.The tourney would still stage most of its biggest games at bowls like the Rose and Sugar, rather than reward higher-seeded teams with home games like a normal sport.
College football is a series of 19th-century parts held together by spackle, replaced only piecemeal and only when absolutely necessary. But the only teams who would get to host any games would be seeds 5 through 9, because the top four seeds would have first-round byes. Sometimes, it might be better to finish No. 5 than No. 4, because at least the No. 5 team would be favored to win one playoff game, and winning a playoff game looks nice on the recruiting mailers.Quite a messy system. But this is actually tidier than anything top-level college football has ever had before.
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