College football playoffs would be so much better if

Dec 4, 2022, 7:48 AM

Our current and future college football playoffs would be so much better if this weekend the rule would be that highest ranked top ten non-conference championship contestants would have to play each other on a neutral field.

This weekend Alabama would have played Ohio State and Penn State would have played Tennessee.

No one would have a problem with the buck nuts or the Roll tide Nikis making the playoffs if they actually played each other on a neutral field the same weekend that legitimate conference championships were being played, rather than backing into the playoffs while conference championship contestants, lose and get booted. No tears for Lincoln Riley or USC or Hollywood Southern California money.

I get the complaints that it would be too hard to coordinate the logistics of getting your football team to a neutral site. I get the fact that it might be a west coast versus the east coast game, where one team is slightly disadvantaged with travel. They could plan ahead to have it played somewhere in central United States or make it a planned big event, bowl game in Pasadena, Miami, or Tampa, or Glendale or even rotate. No excitement because it’s not a conference championship? Then create hype/excitement. Isn’t that what ESPN and college football television does every week

Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Indianapolis are all taken up with conference championship games.

This way, we still have a 4 team playoff with legitimate contenders and we get two extra games that people can argue are necessary, rather than a 12 team farce.

If Georgia, Michigan, TCU, and southern Cal, all had the opportunity to lose this weekend, Ohio state, Alabama, Tennessee, and Penn State all deserve a chance to lose again. I would settle even for one game, but two games make sure that every potential contender every year and gets a chance to lose on championship weekend.

And yes, I do read the newspapers from time to time and I realize that this is already settled for 2024 and there will be a 12 team playoff farce. Teams can truly plan to lose a game if it means building depth for the postseason. Every roster spot will matter. But every game will not matter.

But I still would have liked to see the Alabama/Ohio State squads decide it on the field yesterday.

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