The rumblings surrounding the possibility of an expanded College Football Playoff recently gained a highly-argued opinion.
ESPN's Dan Wetzel is in favor of seeing more teams earn opportunities to win titles, but told Dan Patrick on a recent episode of "The Dan Patrick Show" that an in-season, play-in style tournament is a huge mistake.
"The 24 is a horrible plan,” Wetzel said. “It's not even 24. What the Big Ten wants to do is they take their four bids, and they want to play three games on the conference championship weekend. One and two would still play — so this year, Indiana and Ohio State still play for the conference title. Then three would play six, and four would play five. So you can call it a 24-team playoff, but once you start having play-in rounds, that's the playoff also. So it quickly becomes like a 32-team playoff.”
In so many words, college football's postseason system would essentially morph into March Madness. Whether it's a good idea or not is highly debatable, and it would force the postseason to take on an entirely different schedule than what the teams are used to.
If anything, it may oversaturate the teams actually deserving of being there as opposed to the ones who may have tried to backdoor in.
For now, though, the CFP remains at 12 teams with the postseason officially starting a week from Saturday.
Having said that, there still is time to debate whether this is ultimately a good strategy to improve the sport as a whole.