Ohio State head coach Ryan Day describes emotions of beating Notre Dame
Ohio State’s Ryan Day discusses the journey his team went on to become college football national champions.
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We’re not seeing big picture here. We’re slogging through the minutia of the college football postseason instead of dealing with the big, bad shield in the room.
The NFL shield.
So while college football’s power brokers are busy arguing straight seeding, first-round byes, campus sites and who will choose the expected 16-team College Football Playoff field, they’re ignoring the greatest threat to the ever-evolving system that decided a national champion.
The NFL’s television schedule structure is in direct competition with the College Football Playoff. That means decreased ratings, and decreased growth for a sport trying to develop a new postseason format.
This season alone, critical division matchups between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders and Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears, fall on the same Saturday as three first-round games.
No matter how important or intriguing those first-round College Football Playoff matchups prove to be, they’ll be dwarfed by critical December NFL games — just like last year’s three first-round games in the same window.
And lost television ratings and growth means lost millions from future media rights deals — the very reason university presidents blew up the original four-team CFP in the first place.
“My hope is there are ways around it,” said Florida State athletic director Mike Alford.
Yeah, well, hope is not a plan. Leverage is.
I’ve said it over and over, and will say it again: college football has leverage on the NFL. College football is the free minor league system for the…
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