Despite a plea from the Pac-12 the College Football Playoff won’t be expanding beyond four teams for the 2020 season.
That news came out Wednesday afternoon after Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott suggested the move for this season.
Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports was among the first to report the news and in his piece released on Wednesday, gave the following information:
CFP sources told CBS Sports that Scott merely “mentioned” expansion in terms of asking, “Is this something we should consider?” during a call with the committee. The discussion among the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick was not contentious.
Well at least everyone is getting along and not getting contentious so that part is good.
I’m usually the most anti-expansion person when it comes to postseasons in sports. Whether it’s the NCAA Tournament, the Major League Baseball or NFL playoffs, I don’t like the idea of more teams having a shot at a title.
Except in this case.
How are we supposed to judge the Pac-12, Big Ten, ACC, SEC, and Big 12 against each other if they don’t play anyone from the other Power Five conferences?
I know the Big 12 has looked awful against the powerhouse Sun Belt but are we supposed to just say if Texas goes unbeaten that they don’t deserve a shot because the conference schedule they played wasn’t strong?
Or are we going to say that Ohio State, the team seen as the best in the nation before the year doesn’t get a shot after a possible unbeaten regular season?
I’m usually against expanding playoffs but in this case we have no real way to fairly do this. In this strange season I’m against the decision to stay at just four teams getting in.
A problem we can save for another time is if we think these CFP games are actually going to be played on the dates their currently set to play on.