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‘COLLEGE FOOTBALL–ALWAYS COMPLAINING’
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College football is in crisis, all the time.

It’s the troubles with the crap leadership of the NCAA in an everchanging landscape of the game.

It’s lawsuit after lawsuit in the ‘players rights world’.

It’s the power brokers and the money grab via TV contracts.

It’s the college football realignments that make no sense and destroyed the heritage of the Pac 12.

It’s the money game transfer portal, with terms like first down-touchdown have been replaced by words like tampering and coaches quitting dominate the talks.

It’s the sickness of the NIL bank account and who goes where and why they do and for how much.  Wonder if anyone goes to class anymore?

Now it’s the football playoff structure.  Today’s crisis.

Should it have remained 2-teams.  It went to 4.  Now it’s 12 and no one is happy.

Substandard TV ratings.  4-blowout games in the opening round.  And now the mandate, change it, fix it, expand it further, it’s not right.

Issues on every street corner.

Solutions?

Once you choose the 4-conference champion teams, and then add the 8-at large teams, then seed the 12-team field based on a power formula, how good they are, what their record is, whom they beat, strength of schedule.

Then after you give out byes, and the first round is completed, re-seed the teams based on all those power criteria.

Pull the games in the opening round out of home stadiums, and put them in the 2nd tier bowls, on a neutral field.  Granted you might not have crowds of 100,000 or more, but it makes it fair for both teams, unless this whole thing is a stupendous money grab.

No one likes the idea that two power brokers, Oregon-Ohio State meet this weekend.

People are peeved that Indiana, SMU, and Tennessee played miserably in the opening round.

Maybe there is reality in all this.  College football, at least this fall, was about Oregon-Ohio State-Notre Dame-Penn State.  They were in a galaxy all to its own.  And no one else is equal to them.

But you cannot deny how great a season Boise had, or what Indiana did in September-October-November. That should count for something shouldn’t it?

As for the whiners, Alabama, South Carolina, Miami, you lost games at the end that crippled you.

There is no easy solution to the issue, but inviting 16-to-24 teams to this dance means more blowouts.  So why do it?

Always complaints in college football, where problems and problems keep piling up.

My suggestion box is open for ideas on how to solve this.

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