Ohio State Football: A case for College Football Playoff overhaul

There are many Ohio State football fans that wish the College Football Playoff was overhauled with the way things have played out recently.

This particular topic has been talked about endlessly, but the fact of the matter is that the problems arising from the current playoff system need to be addressed. No, I’m not just talking about expanding the field to at least eight teams, I’m also referring to the way in which those teams are selected by the committee.

The fact that there is no clear explanation of how the selection process is completed tells you all you need to know.

The solution? Make everything transparent from the start. If out of conference games matter, then they need to matter point-blank period. You can’t give a team a pass because their conference is perceived as “better” than another conference.

This is subjective and it has been proven time and again to not be a valid metric when determining if one team is better than the other. No more saying winning your conference matters, but suddenly giving a team like Alabama a pass because they are perceived to be the better team in comparison.

Should there be more than one team from the same conference in it? No, not at all. The two teams at the top of their respective divisions decide it on the field in their conference game and that’s it.

So, what about the time required for the extra games? This is a cop-out and anyone who’s ever watched division II or division III football knows it.

Sure, you could make the argument that it affects the Rose Bowl and things like that, but come on let’s be honest. If two top ranked teams were in that bowl game people would watch.

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You could easily set the playoff games to coincide with the top bowls and the time frame would be the same.

Having an eight team playoff would allow for a champion out of each of the Power 5 conferences and would also allow for some fresh faces from the other conferences as well. Sure, people have made the argument that their schedule isn’t as hard and all of that, but why don’t those same people let their teams prove it on the field?

If they’re so sure that their team is head and shoulders above one from a non-Power 5 conference, then they have nothing to worry about.

It’s all about perception and just because you perceive one team to be better than the other based on conference, as has been shown time and time again, that is far from a barometer for truth.