Reacting to 24-Team College Football Playoff, What it Means for Alabama: Just a Minute

As of this recording Thursday afternoon, the 2014 college football playoff has not officially been announced, but according to all the top sources in college football journalism, it is all but a done deal for the college football playoff to expand to 24 teams starting next season, which is crazy because we've just had three years of the 12-team playoff. So what does this mean for Alabama? You look, Alabama has made the playoff more than any other team total over the years since its inception in 2014, starting with the 14 field and then being the 12-team playoff the last two years, so I think expanding it to 24 obviously just gives Alabama even more chances to make it. I think it sets an even, I don't know if you want to say lower or higher depending on how you look at it, benchmark of if Alabama doesn't make it, it's going to be even more trouble for the coaching staff. And I think kind of the reaction to this all across college football is just that this continues to devalue the regular season in some ways, because in some ways it's kind of like what already happened this past Saturday in Tuscaloosa. Alabama lost to Georgia, and it's really not that big of a deal for Alabama's playoff chances. Pre-watching or watching the Saban documentary that just came out and looking at the intensity of that 2011 Alabama-LSU game, and Alabama did eventually get the rematch, but they needed a lot of other things to happen around the country for that to happen. That's just not the case for Alabama this year. They lost to Georgia. They still have everything they want ahead of them, and this is just a 12-team field. So when you get to that 24-team field, losses will matter even less, But in a way, it'll make the regular season more interesting because more teams will be alive going deeper into the season. Will it make a better playoff? I don't know about that. I would argue that there's very, very rarely going to be 24 teams that have a legitimate shot at winning a national title. Football is a very different sport than basketball and what we see in March Madness every year. I just don't think you're going to see that type of upsets. I think really the biggest thing for Alabama fans will be that this all but eliminates the conference championship games. Alabama has won more SEC championships than any other school has had more appearances and so Alabama fans are pretty used to going over to Atlanta the first weekend in December and with this new format that's just not going to be a thing mainly because the way the calendar works and because teams don't want that extra game if there is going to be the expanded playoff field so for Crimson Tide fans those trips to Atlanta for the SEC championship will end I'm sure there will be plenty of playoff games in Atlanta but that's kind of the biggest impact for Alabama besides the fact that it just gives them even more opportunities to get into the field makes losing less of a big deal in the regular season but keeps more teams hopes alive farther into the year and just makes it more likely that Alabama is going to make the playoff every year but what do you think let us know in the comments on social media are you for or against the 24 team college football playoff that wraps up today's a little bit lengthy just a minute thank you so much for watching