Nick Saban’s answer about whether to expand the College Football Playoff or not makes us wonder.
The potential expansion of college football playoffs is in vogue in the early 2020s, but Alabama football coaches aren’t so sure it’s a good thing or a bad thing.
“A long time ago, when we decided to have two teams, choose the best two and leave the championship game, and everyone wanted to expand to four teams, it was my comment then that if we expand to four teams and have a playoff, everything will be about the playoff, “said Nick Saban in The Rich Eisen Show Friday.
“All the media interest, everything is going to be about the playoff. The shows to do all year round, the shows like who enters the NCAA Basketball Tournament, this is what it will be. All the other bowling games and teams that have had good seasons but haven’t made it there, interest in what they do in the off-season will decrease. And that’s exactly what happened “.
The decisive game of college football involuntarily decreased the sport as a whole
Saban was prophetic about what could happen when we expanded to four teams. While it is great to put two more teams potentially in the mix to compete for a national title, this has greatly reduced the seasons of teams that have had good, but not great. This significantly undermined the best part of college football, as all games of the regular season mattered, or were.
If the playoff is expanded to six, eight or even 16 teams, you can say goodbye to any importance of the sport in the regular season. Although Saban did not say whether he was in favor of the expansion or not, he painted a sinister picture of what would happen if we try to soften the sport again. We are at the crossroads of whether bowling can still coexist in the age of college football.
Regardless of whether expansion is coming or not, Alabama will remain in the mix to win more national titles.
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