Penn State football’s James Franklin took a controversial stance on the College Football Playoff. The first year of the new twelve-team field provided plenty of drama for the 2024 season. With more teams vying for spots, there were more resumes to choose from among the committee, all leading to a thrilling race down the stretch. The Nittany Lions were safely in this field and made a deep run in the playoff to the semifinals. The season ended in a close defeat to Notre Dame.
Franklin’s program is poised for another run at the playoff. Still, the Nittany Lions’ head coach gave an eye-opening statement on potentially tweaking the current format to more automatic bids for the major conferences.
“The majority of people that have strong opinions have an agenda and are biased based on what’s good for them. Right? I think the reason the Big Ten and the SEC feel like there’s an argument for more (automatic bids) is because of a lot of the things that I’ve also brought up in the past, the discrepancies or things that are not even or balanced in the sport. Our conferences are built differently, everybody shouldn’t get the same vote. (The Big Ten has) more teams in our conference now and have a greater level of competition week-in and week-out, why should it be balanced?
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I think that’s the discussion everybody is kind of having if that makes sense. That’s the challenge, and that’s where, to me, the most important thing that can happen is all the commissioners getting together or a commissioner of college football getting everybody together and saying: ‘Look, everybody’s going to be the same. Everybody’s going to play the same number of conference games, we’re all going to play the same number of games, we’re all going to play a conference championship game or not.’ … That would…
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