Well, dayum. I’ve been doing this whole college football thing wrong all this time ($$).
No one has any delusions that a G5 team will win the national championship against what Alabama and Clemson are putting out every year. But college football has never really been about who holds up the trophy at the end. It’s the journey there and the hope that goes along with it. It is bad for the long-term health of the sport that the same handful of teams make the current four-team bracket. It’s not good that the Pac-12 is often out of the picture. It’s not good that half of the FBS could never pretend it had a shot.
It’s why expansion has been inevitable. It needs to be done for the good of the sport. It may not change who wins, but it changes what matters. It changes what we focus on and consider success.
Maybe on Earth 2, brother. But on this planet, postseason expansion simply shows that college football continues to be what it’s been about for a while now: chasing the almighty dollar.