Friday morning buffet

Yeah, you made it.  Today’s buffet, no surprise, features plenty of playoff seasoning.

• Heismanpundit gets mocked here on occasion, but I don’t see anything wrong with his post decrying the creeping NFL-ization of college football.
• Here’s a preview of the Georgia-Florida game from the Gator perspective.  Somebody hasn’t heard of Artie Lynch.
• Is there more to winning football games than running the ball, stopping the run and being on the plus side of giveaway-takeaways?
• Hopefully you’re not this naive, but if you’re still wondering who’s really driving the conference expansion bus, let Chuck Neinas clue you in:  “Our television partners agreed that the only new member that would enhance the Big 12 value for television was Notre Dame.”
• Mark Richt is okay with a four-team playoff.
• You can have a four-team playoff with deserving teams, or you can have a four-team playoff with Big Ten participation.  But evidently you can’t have both.
• Ivan Maisel has two reasons why that 12-year playoff time commitment may not be as strong as they’re trying to make it sound:  “You have to think that the need for more money will arise in that time. And after a few years of team No. 5 screaming about being left out, the need to quell controversy will arise, too.”
• Gus Malzahn grabs another former SEC running back.
• Mack Brown thinks the new playoff money is another good reason for increasing player stipends.