In the College Football Playoff era, the Ohio State football program has thrived with change. It started with the four-team CFP, which saw the Buckeyes win the first of those. 10 years later, the Ohio State Buckeyes won the first-ever 12-team CFP when they beat Notre Dame.
Ryan Day has done a good job preparing the Buckeyes for longer seasons. His teams need to be used to playing 15 or 16 games at this point. That is the length of what an NFL regular season used to be. Yet, this is the state of affairs in the game of college football.
Now, the Big Ten is trying to expand the College Football Playoff to 24 teams, doubling the current field. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti is trying to tell fans that it's good. But Ohio State football fans are smarter than that, and his logic won't fool fans. It's just another blatant money grab.
Ohio State football fans are smart enough to see through Tony Petitti's facade
While speaking to the media, Petitti claims that he doesn't see how a 24-team CFP would devalue the regular season. It certainly would devalue the regular season more than it does already with 12 teams. Before a loss could doom a season, which made every game feel critical. Now, two losses still will get you in.
Petitti tried to get someone else to throw a stat out there that would make it seem like expansion is a good idea. His deputy commissioner claims that 80 different college football teams would have made the CFP since 2014 if this model had been implemented back then.
If using a 24-team playoff model, Big Ten deputy commissioner Kerry Kenny says 80 different teams would have made the playoffs dating back to 2014.
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Is that really better? Do we really need a team that finishes sixth in its own conference getting a chance to compete for a national championship? The playoffs would no longer become special at that point. An Iowa/Vanderbilt matchup in the first round is not compelling or interesting.
Tony Petitti is showing the Big Ten and SEC are only about greed
If fans haven't figured it out at this point, this will make it obvious: the Big Ten doesn't care about them. They only care about making as much money as possible. The SEC is the same way, which is also supporting a 24-team CFP. Each of them just wants to make as much money as they can.
Neither conference wants to do what's good for college football or what is best for the fans. If that were the case, they would never have thought about introducing the concept of a 24-team Playoff. Instead, this is a reminder that only stuffing their pocketbooks will make the executives of the league happy.
Petitti has even gotten Ryan Day to say that he supports a 24-team CFP. Whether or not he actually does is unclear. Petitti needs all of the coaches and administrators to dance to the same beat if this is something that is going to get passed.
Fans were already mad at Petitti for backing Michigan when they cheated. If you love the Buckeyes, you should hope that the CFP stays at 12 for as long as possible and see him ail again.
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