Is the College Football Playoff completely broken?
College Football Enquirer co-hosts Andy Staples, Steven Godfrey and Ross Dellenger discuss their thoughts on the current state of the College Football Playoff selection process and if there needs to be a change. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
Hmm, hmm, hmm.
What a shame, Andy and Ross.
How did we get here?
I wonder how we got here.
Perchance, gentlemen, we got here because there's an Atlantic Coast Conference with two Teams from San Francisco are in it, who got rid of their divisions, who enacted an asinine, counterintuitive counterproductive championship standard for Determining participants in Charlotte.
And then when they barfed up Duke as their conference champion.
The bylaws of the College Football Playoff took the five highest-rated conference champions.
But no, we had a nice table full of analysts ESPN never mentioned that completely Counterintuitive construction of super conferences is the actual reason we ended up Here.
It's also, as Andy pointed out before, Would have squelched the debate last year Because the oversized Big Ten allowed for Indiana will have a weaker schedule.
It's amazing that we're sitting here talking about how terrible, unwinnable, and horrible It is for James Madison and Tulane.
And you know what?
I'm not going to argue football versus football.
Notre Dame should be in this playoff.
I could maybe run down and figure out how many teams I think Notre Dame would Would beat on a neutral field right now these twelve teams.
Notre Dame would be favored against more than half of them.
But you reap what you sow.
And the only thing that disgusts me today, I feel bad for Marcus Freeman and Notre Dame.
I feel bad for Clark Lee and Vanderbilt.
I even kind of feel bad for Steve Sarkisian.
Texas.
We will now spend an off-season blaming all.
But ourselves, us being college football, for this system.
You reap what you sow; you wanted to make a giant conference and have no divisions.
Congratulations to the JMU Dukes.
Eat it.
Well, what's interesting is the 5.
Highest-ranked conference champs were an elegant construction, which, By the way, one of the four people who constructed it.
Was the Notre Dame athletic director then, Jack Swarbrick.
It was an elegant construction, because you can't say.
The champions of these particular four or five conferencesyou had to say the highest ranked conference champions, because it was never going to be a case where; One of the five champions will be ranked higher than a Power Conference champion.
And in fact, it has happened both years that this playoff has been in effect.
