How do you feel about the 24-team college football playoff we now know is coming in the 2027-28 season?
Like it? Hate it? Or do you, as I, just hold your nose and accept it?
Rick ClevelandOle Miss fans probably would prefer the expansion to 24 teams from the current 12 to have happened this season. With a 6-3 record and currently ranked No. 19 in the college football playoff rankings, the Rebels have practically no chance to make the 12-team field. But they would still be right in the middle of a 24-team playoffs race.
This probably won’t be a popular take in Oxford, but I would argue a team that loses by 24 points to Florida and by 35 at home to Georgia doesn’t deserve to be in a tournament to determine the national champion. And I would argue that expanding the playoff to 24 teams means having a tournament in which three-fourths of the teams have no chance whatsoever of winning the championship.
Expansion proponents will argue the more the merrier. They foresee a football tournament that produces the magic of March Madness in basketball. The fly in that ointment is that the 24-team football playoffs will not include the sort of teams that provide so much of the basketball magic.
A team such as Middle Tennessee State will not have the opportunity of stunning Michigan State in the football playoffs, as happened in basketball. (Thank you for that, Kermit Davis Jr.)
VCU, even if it had a football team, would never get a chance to shock North Carolina as it did in the NCAA Basketball Tournament last March.
Instead, the 24-team football playoffs will make room for more fourth, fifth and sixth place teams from the Southeastern Conference and the Big Ten.
Let’s take the current playoff rankings. Four three-loss teams from the SEC would make the cut: South Carolina, Ole Miss, LSU and Missouri. That’s Missouri, which lost to Ole Miss by 28 and also lost at Mississippi State. I guess you might believe the Missouri Tigers belong in a playoff for the national championship. I would argue they belong in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl or New Year’s Eve game in Florida.
I just don’t believe much is gained from expanding to 24 teams. And much is lost, starting with the Southeastern Conference Championship Game, which has far out-paced the TV ratings of the first-round games in the current 12-team playoffs format.
The 2026 SEC Championship Game will be the last, which means that only one Mississippi team in history participated. Congratulations to the 1998 Mississippi State Bulldogs who led Tennessee in the fourth quarter before falling 24-14. (I still hear State fans complain about the officiating.)
Usually, when decisions like this one to expand the playoffs are made, the deciding factor is money. That’s not the case with the playoff expansion. In this case, you can’t just follow the money. The increased TV payoff for doubling playoffs participation is virtually negated by losing the revenue that the conference championship games provided.
That being the case, you would think that the decision to expand was made because of popular demand. Wrong. In fact, the opposite may be the case.
Just this past August, Nielsen Sports conducted a fan survey to determine the popularity of expanding the playoffs: 63% percent of people who described themselves as “avid fans” were against the expansion. What’s more, 76% of “casual fans” also were against expansion. Given the choice of six size options – from no playoffs at all the way up to the 24-team expansion, fewer than 10% of respondents opted for the 24-team field.
Nevertheless, here we go…
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