Read this, and tell me every big money retailer in America wouldn’t be salivating over the prospect of marketing a 16-team college football playoff bracket.
I keep saying it, but the postseason isn’t about the fans and it isn’t about settling things on the field. It’s about our wallets. Just ask Larry Culpepper.
Get The Picture 
Walmart? They know their market, at least in Alabama.
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And it ain’t about the players either!
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The players are amateurs, didn’t you know that? $8 million a year coaching salaries, PSL’s for seating, corporate sponsorships, and billion dollar tv deals are not relevant.
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First round matchups in a 16-team playoff:
Missouri @ Alabama
AZ State @ Oregon
UCLA @ Florida State
UGA @ Ohio State
GT @ Baylor
Kansas State @ TCU
Arizona @ Mississipi State
Mississippi @ Michigan State
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Nope. If there’s a sixteen-team playoff, you can bet every conference winner, including the mids, makes an appearance.
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Sweet. 9-4 Cincinatti deserves a shot at a national title.
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You left out Marshall AND Boise State AND WKU. All deserving teams. And shouldn’t every team that wins any conference get in? Plus no one will watch TCU and KSU and Bama and Mizzou play again. Where is the fairness? This is a travesty. Everyone should take to twitter and get ESPN on board to condemn this. This MUST expand to 32 teams to be fair to these mid majors and traditional powers that were left out.
Once we go to 32 we’re halfway there!!
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Ok who is drinking all this Dr. Pepper??? No way they can afford all those ads right?
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You’re pretty chipper for a guy who just got canned.
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+1
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Haha nice one. I’ve had my name longer than he has. 😉
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Does it bother anybody else that they keep referring to “the college football fan” in a weird disconnected objective way?
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Weird is the stubborn hardheadedness that’s going on to not admit that 8 teams is the number for a Playoff from the gitgo. Rather than approach the logic of that from the start, the foot dragging from two to four has turned into a steamfest to see how many games you can add on as if that was the object to begin with.
Rather than throw in the ludicrous numbers above 8, not based on any logic, couldn’t there be an honest debate about 8 teams , even though you have been wrong about the approach all along as has been shown this season? Throwing shrapnel into the mix is just hardheadedly not wanting to admit reasons for two and four-team playoff attempts don’t fit the bill. Immature minds do that when they are losing an argument.
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“…admit reasoning…” ; not “…admit reasons…”
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Mr. Cojones, while you are very often on the mark, I believe the CFB playoff stopping at 8 (or 4 for that matter) is as likely to “stick” as the NFL staying with one wild card team per conference back in the 70’s or the MLB hanging in with just with one per league (and don’t get me started on the NBA or the travesty that’s the NHL). So even if you’re right about 8, you’ll only have that ideal number for a few years, then it’ll slip either into some sort of 12 team thing with play-ins or 16. But maybe they won’t get around to that level of expansion for some time, and you’ll get to enjoy the 8 team thing into your twilight years. As for me, I’m told there’s life in these United States outside of CFB on autumn Saturdays, so I may finally just take up golf or learn to paint without those numbers.
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Plan on enjoying Saturday’s with CFB for many, many years Mr. Slaw. Eight is the sweet spot for the playoff and there will be little support for going any further. Not to mention, there are some “natural” and substantial issues that prevent the big schools going any further than an 8 team playoff. Mentioning the NFL, NBA, NHL, is only an attempt to enflame the discussion, they are not a valid comparison.
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Mac, I can’t speak for others, but I can absolutely assure you that when I provide a set of examples, it is for illustrative or cautionary note purposes only and not as “an attempt to enflame the discussion.” That is not my style, amigo.
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Sorry, my reply was to your comment but I meant the remark about using other sports/organizations as a comparison universally because it appears in every argument against playoffs for CFB. I am as opposed to going the NFL/NBA was as you are, just don’t think it can, or will, get anywhere near that level. I would like to see discussion on the merits of eight without the “boogey man” argument brought in.
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Larry Culpepper is just plain creepy…
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Really, nothing says “Party!” like Walmart and a Dr. Pepper. Good times.
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Prefer 8 but 16 is better than all the bullshit bowls with 6 or 7 win teams
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