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If you’ve played Candyland or Go Fish with a toddler, you know they rig the rules to help them win. Maybe, they haven’t learned how to lose gracefully, or they’re accustomed to getting their way. Eventually, they grow up and realize nobody wants to play with a cheater, and, anyway, games are more fun if they’re not rigged.
The folks running the SEC and Big Ten apparently never learned that. They’re acting like 4-year-olds while steering the College Football Playoff’s future, debating how they can rig the bracket to reduce their chance of losing.
It’s weak, and it’s pathetic, and, if they keep it up, they might find that the audience grew tired of their immature gamesmanship and lost interest in the product.
The 12-team playoff – a postseason format forged from a mindset of fairness and created with painstaking compromise – will last for one more season.
After this 2025 season, control of the College Football Playoff shifts into the hands of the SEC and Big Ten. Those two conferences will reshape the playoff as they see fit. Petulance guides their actions.
Ohio State quarterback Will Howard (18) runs the ball against Notre Dame during the first half of the College Football Playoff national championship game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
Playoff expansion to 14 or 16 teams is under consideration. This would be gluttonous, considering the first team left out of the 12-team bracket last season finished with four losses, three of which came against teams with a combined 21-18 record. But, many of us already made peace with the 12-team playoff serving as a pitstop en route to something bigger. So, fine. Go ahead and expand.
The more pitiful development is how the bids in this reformatted playoff would be assigned. At least half of the bids within a 14- or 16-team playoff would be reserved for the SEC and Big Ten…
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/sec-big-ten-stacking-college-110737872.html
Author : USA TODAY Sports
Publish date : 2025-02-19 11:07:00
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