Playoffs!? A college football Playoff

Yeah i know the arguments.

Brings college football into conformity with major sports, gives fans what they want, ends the confounding, split-championship nonsense. There's one winner, period. It's lucrative. The most recent playoff plan seriously shopped to major football-playing schools would have grossed nearly $376 million a year, more than double current bowl payouts.

But thats like asking a Packer fan if he wants to demolish Lambeau Field and Build a big fancy stadium that hold 100k and has too many luxury boxes. It's tradition.

The bowl system provides rewarding postseason experiences for far more student-athletes than will ever play in a playoff. We should continue to nurture that system and to permit our student-athletes to enjoy the many benefits of the bowl experience without requiring them to play what is, in effect, the equivalent of an NFL season."

— Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman, to the Senate Judiciary Committee last October

And the playoff would only be 8 teams. Meaning instead of 56 postseason teams there are 8. Nice ending for a senoir huh. Watching the playoffs.

"How many fans are racing to their TV sets on a Saturday afternoon to see a collegiate basketball game, compared to the massive viewership that's occurring during the March Madness? In football, you have people at their TV sets every Saturday afternoon watching. Are you still going to have that if they're all waiting for the big postseason?"

— Penn State President Graham Spanier, speaking to a PSU sports journalism class last March

This could really diminish interest in the regular season. College football's is the most meaningful and drama-filled in sports. There is so little margin for error that every game from late August to early December is vital.

"I like the bowls. I coached in Division II and I-AA, and I've been through the playoffs scene. Fifteen teams go home losers, and one goes home a winner. The playoffs are not much of a reward and not much fun unless you win. It's just one more game to get ready for and to play."

— Texas A&M coach Dennis Franchione

Maybe i changed your opinions. Maybe not. Thanks for reading. Go Blue.