The Most Overrated College Football Thing Was …
The Cincinnatisplaining, College Football Playoff expansion, and how it all ties together.
The fumble across the goal line by Tulsa’s Steven Anderson wasn’t done being reviewed in Cincinnati’s 28-20 win, and social media was already tripping over itself making excuses and diving head-first into the whataboutism pool.
No, it’s not okay to need to get out of a November home game against a mediocre Group of Five team by hanging on for dear life, especially since GameDay was in town, and especially since College Football Playoff committee chairman Gary Barta flat-out said the performances against bad Navy and Tulane teams the previous weeks weren’t good enough, and especially because …
We shouldn’t have to be doing this at all.
This stinks, and it’s not fair to anyone, especially the Bearcat fans.
It’s a wonderful time to be into Cincinnati, and why not?
Too many college football media people who should know better were whining about the Bearcats being ranked sixth in the first CFP rankings, as if it was history’s greatest injustice – wrong view, wrong take, wrong everything.
That was AMAZING – the University of Cincinnati football program that has one good win and a fat load of nothing else was given more respect than 9-0 Oklahoma, and it was right there walking step for step with the Ohio States and Michigans and Alabamas of the college football world.
Did you see Clemson in the College Football Playoff top 25, much less just outside of the top four? How about LSU, or Florida State, or Nebraska, or USC, or Texas, or …
The problem isn’t that Cincinnati struggled against Tulsa. It’s that we’re forced to nitpick and get all weird and negative because that’s the deal. That’s the playoff system.
I’ve seen all the Cincinnati games. As a totally neutral observer, I think it could beat anyone in the country on the right day, but it’s 9-3 at generous best in the weekly SEC or Big Ten grind, and it’s certainly not unbeaten in any of the other Power Five conferences, and …
You might think it’s up there with 1944 Army in terms of historical greatness. It shouldn’t come down to opinion – and that includes the ranking system.
Of course Cincinnati should be in the College Football Playoff if it goes unbeaten and wins the American Athletic Conference title. However …
Of course the Big Ten champion should be in, and so should the champions of the Pac-12, Big 12, ACC, SEC, and I’ll throw the Mountain West in there, too.
Enough is enough. Teams have to be able to play their way into a playoff system and this has to be taken away from the whims and opinions of the people talking this all over in Grapevine, Texas, as you’re reading this.
The College Football Playoff expansion talks will go on in early December, and there won’t be anything really changing until 2024 at the earliest.
That doesn’t do Cincinnati fans any good right now.
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