Buckeyes are Prime Example of Why College Football Playoff Expansion is a Bad Thing

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The looming threat of College Football Playoff expansion is very real, and it would be a disaster for the sport of College Football.

Expanding to a 24-team format is just far too much. We have already seen that in this current format of the CFP, there are at least two games in the first round that are over before the ball is kicked off. 

Think back to Penn State and SMU two years ago, Oregon and JMU last year, and lastly, Ole Miss vs. Tulane last year.

Three games, three complete blowouts. 

Now, I do think that there is a way to be able to tweak the format so that these matchups don't become reality, but a wholesale change of the format is a very big mistake.

Former Buckeye legend Bobby Carpenter had Sporting News Senior Writer Bill Bender on his show on the BIGPLAY network to discuss the new format. Bender pointed out that Ohio State would have made every College Football Playoff since 2014 and commented, saying, "It should be hard to make the Playoffs."

It absolutely should be hard to make the Playoffs, and expanding the final total to 24 totally devalues the regular season. This is not to say that the Buckeyes are not deserving of being in every Playoff, but the fact that, at two losses, they would have never had to worry is a major concern.

I think that many view March Madness from a skewed perspective. We absolutely love that tournament for the first weekend, when there are so many games and so much chaos. We love it because it is all that we know.

While all of that is true, the regular season is largely irrelevant in College Basketball. Teams definitely cannot lose a bunch of games, but a slip-up here and there will not end their season.

There is an argument to be made that that is a positive thing, but I absolutely fall into the camp that this would be a major mistake, especially in football.

The 24-team playoff would open up the postseason to teams that have three and four losses in a 12-game season. That simply should not be an acceptable postseason format, and it would harm the weekly product on the field.

The truth of it all is that people love college football not for the Playoffs or the National Championship. Rather, people love college football for Saturdays in the fall, period. Every Saturday is the peak of the sport because every Saturday means something. 

Adding more spots to the postseason eliminates that and ruins the best thing that the sport has. The 24-team format is well on the way to becoming a reality, and the fallout of it could be disastrous for the sport.

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