College Football's 24-Team Playoff Sparks Backlash

The big news in the college football world, which is the expanded playoff seemingly being a guarantee. The current 12-team format is likely seeing its final season as we are going to double the number up to 24. And I am torn on this. I, you know, Dave and I had a really good conversation before we got going here about the why they skipped 16 to 24 there's some you know as always financial explanations for that but what is so jarring to me Dave is the approval rating of this move is it's not like oh it divides people no it unites people i would say 90 percent maybe more of the reaction to the 2014 field is a negative reaction yeah we we simply don't need it you know for years people complain they wanted to have a playoff we should not let the computers decide it should be more than one game you get to two games we got to four then it was like well maybe we should add some more teams to it and six and eight and they jumped to 12 but i was against the 12 from the beginning i liked the four i actually didn't like the playoff at all because i'm old school college football but i get it i get why they went to 12 there's more opportunities to get in and there's the money and the non-power four teams and all of that that's fine nobody needed 24 like there's no sensible reason to go to 24 other than money and i get it new day and NIL these middle of the road teams need more money to get their 40 million dollar rosters maybe we should look at that not do that but nobody needs 24 teams you just don't not in this sport and then those who like it kevin will throw the numbers and say you know this is the least amount of teams are eligible for a championship compared to all the other sports i don't care it's a different sport i grew up in Miami with the old school college football mentality that if you lost the game in October your season might very well be all over which would make this Miami Notre Dame game so important everybody remembers Catholics versus Convicts well guess what the loser that game didn't win the national title it just meant more back then and i get it it's a different era and and you want to move on and get to a playoff so all right we got to four we got to 12 you just don't need 24 right now Kevin and you and i can go back and forth and pick maybe seven teams that can win the national title right now today you don't need 24 you just don't need that and it's the first time where the college football people in charge decided you know to heck with the fans and to heck with what everybody else want we're going to do it for the money they're not bashful about it and here it is they got the money and you're going to lose conference championship games which everybody loves that's out the window people love going to Atlanta for the SEC title gone and it's just going to devalue a lot of the regular season in my mind so i am not as uh strongly against it as most despite my again my big thing um 16 felt kind of like this perfect meet in the middle they were clearly going to expand i don't think the bye weeks are ultimately as valuable against small sample size but i think your number one seeds and number two seeds would prefer hosting a home playoff game really because they'd be big favorites anyway it's totally fine i also think an expanded here's the thing guys right some people are like oh let's go back to four last year in a 12 team playoff they left out a team who could have won the national championship and i'll i will debate that forever because they left out Notre Dame Notre Dame last year was one of the three best teams in college football and they left them out and they got that wrong and i don't care that Miami played the national championship because that was actually further evidence that they would have then left out a very good Miami team so i was totally fine adding a little bit more here going to 24 is a is a little jarring right because we're now getting more byes actually right the the math on it now is is really funky here to me i think college football has a little bit of an issue in terms of when the playoff begins i think they leave a little bit of meat on the bone i understand like Army Navy is important but i think they leave a little bit you know, meat on the bone with that. The NFL, because they're the NFL, they're sharks swimming in water. They see an open day, they throw a game on, they call, hey, Matt LaFleur, tell Jordan Love it's time to go throw 40 passes. He's playing on a Tuesday night. Like, they just get crazy with it. So I think that sometimes has hurt the excitement. But there is at least a small argument that two games today that for most people will not even remotely hit the radar Michigan Penn State Oregon Nebraska in this new format still have a little bit of life I understand Dave your take on that is totally reasonable I'm assuming is it shouldn't forget all four of them they stink but it can it can keep some of the back-end games still with a little more oomph here in our regular season