Who Profits From a 24-Team College Football Playoff?

So what I want to start off with is sort of the premise of who profits from a 2014 college football playoff.

And I guess you could say that many people profit.

I think in some sense the The broadcasters would benefit the television revenue that comes from that.

Obviously, the fans would benefit from getting to watch the game, but they're going to have to pay for it in that sense, pay to watch it, whether it's in person or streaming online or on a typical cable channel.

Of course, it's going to help the school conferences, it's going to help the universities, and it's going to help the college athletes.

But I think as we dig down a little bit deeper, I think that we need to recognize that if there is an expansion, if we have a 2014 playoff, it could be good for college football if it improves competition, preserves school control, makes financial sense, and remains easy to watch.

So that's at least four different ifs in there that I think if they occur, we could have something that's very special in a 2014 playoff.

And we'll walk through some of the scenarios of how this might play out and my wish list.

I may be biased in saying this, but I think ultimately it would be fantastic to have the national championship every year at the Rose Bowl.

And there would be a buildup to that in some sort of playoff, right? I also think that with the introduction of NIL, there's a lot more teams who are competitive now.

And if you're talking about a truly balanced system, yes, the AP poll can show you the top, you know, 20, 25 teams.

But I think if you're looking at, you know, having a playoff to where it's, you know, one versus the, you know, the 10 or, you know, whatever it might be, or the Maybe there's a bye week in the first week or what have you for those sort of maybe top four teams or something like that.

But I think it would be nice to have a more balanced approach to where you could see more games that you're unlikely to see during the regular season unless they're scheduled.

But also I think this idea that in any playoff or any postseason, it's nice to see when teams have a chance to win and what happens.

This doesn't mean that we're going to stick the number one team against the 20th ranked team.

I don't think that would be probably appropriate.

You'd probably want to give the one versus four the sort of first bye week there to have them rest.

to make it a little more difficult for the teams that did not play as well during the regular season, were not ranked as high.

But often we have this situation where it's because you're outside the top 10, you're not going to make it, or top 12, you're not going to make it to a CFP game.

Move to 24, that becomes a moot point.

And if you're arguing about, let's say, the teams that are in the 20s to 25 to 30s, you don't even really go past 20 to 25.

At that point, I think it becomes less of a sticky point because you're really talking about the top 20 teams in the country.

You're not really going beyond that.

But I would say I've got some context for this in that I attended the Red River rivalry game over the weekend at the Cotton Bowl.

Fantastic experience.