This might have slipped under the ol' radar for many, but in early September college football FINALLY got around to fixing the College Football Playoff system.
Soon, the days of four teams qualifying (and, it seems, Alabama having a permanent spot along with another rotating SEC club) the playoffs will expand to 12 teams. At this point, the talk is for this playoff to begin in 2026. Hell, let's just move it forward and get this party started.
This new system seems to be a better and more fair determination of a national champion. It calls for the six highest-ranked conference champions and six at-large picks -- as determined by a selection committee -- to make the playoffs. There will still be schools on the outside looking in, but all in all a bit of common sense seems to have come into play. And a 12-team, 11-game postseason could mean as much as $2 billion in media revenue. We all know money talks when it comes to college sports.
The top four seeds would be conference champions and receive byes into the second round. That leaves four first-round games that would be played on college campuses and at bowl sites.
Not to beat my own drum (okay, I DO mean to do it), back on Dec. 16, 2017 in this very space, I proposed an eight-team playoff with the first four games hosted (at on-campus sites) by the higher seed. This allowed the bowl system to continue (tho, seriously, do we really need over 30 bowl games and sub-.500 teams playing?)
A 12-team, 11-game postseason could mean as much as $2 billion in media revenue.
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