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The College Football Playoff Has To Expand To Eight Teams

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David Hookstead Sports And Entertainment Editor
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The college football playoff needs to be expanded to eight teams, and I think I’ve devised the perfect plan.

I’ve been saying ever since the BCS days, which were hell, that an eight team playoff was the only way to go. We now have a four team playoff. It’s certainly better, but this is not good enough.

We need eight teams, and it’s very simple.

All the Power Five conference champs get automatic bids, there are two at large bids and then the highest ranked non-Power Five team gets in. Those are your eight teams.

How come I’m a 25-year-old sports guy and somehow smarter than the entire NCAA? If I’m able to come up with this idea then I think it’d be fair to expect the same from those actually dictating college football policy. This year we have Clemson, Georgia, Alabama and Oklahoma. It’s not bad at all, but my scenario would be light years better.

It’d be Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia, USC, UCF, Wisconsin and Alabama. Tell me with a straight face that my playoff isn’t insanely better. It’s just exhausting having to be more right than the entire NCAA. It’s really embarrassing for them.

Until we go to eight teams, we will never have a perfect system. It’s truly that simple. This isn’t rocket science. This is simple common sense. Anybody who thinks I’m wrong clearly doesn’t know anything about college football.

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