By: John Ivlow
The college football playoffs weren’t always around in Division-1 FBS college football, whereas the championship game was simply determined by who was #1 and #2, and the rest of the teams played in other bowl games. Switching from the BCS (Bowl Championship Series), the college football post season slightly changed by adding the playoff concept, which meant that the top 4 teams in the FBS automatically qualified for the playoffs. Even though this changed the post season up a bit, the rest of the teams who did not qualify for the college football playoffs still compete in bowl games. There very first college football playoff series was established in the 2014-2015 football season, which had The Ohio State Buckeyes win the national championship over The Oregon Ducks 42-20, and the series has went on since. Even though I love the idea of having college football playoffs in the FBS, I still wish to see more teams added to the playoffs. Currently, there are only 4 teams that qualify for the playoffs, which means that 2 of the 4 teams in the playoff bracket have to win 1 game before they make it to the championship. To me, it would make things more exciting if maybe there were 8 or even 16 teams that got to participate in the playoffs. This would also mean that there would be more football to watch, and along with it giving many more teams an opportunity to make it to the national championship, because I believe there are way more than 4 teams that are good enough to be in the playoffs. With all of the talented teams out there with pretty good records that do not make it in the playoffs may anger many fans. Also, personally speaking as a football player, participating in playoffs whether it was from high school or college was pretty intense but very fun at the same time, because whoever lost was done and whoever won got to advance to the next round, so it make things more interesting and made the stakes higher. The link I attached below states more reasons why the college football playoffs should be expanded.
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