I agree. It was a lot more fun when at the end of the season, you were happy (or unhappy) to be ranked 4 vs 14, rather than today's more or less binary system where you either win the NC or you don't. In the old system, success was defined differently and a lot more fans went into the off-season happy.The bowls have been very good for college football over the years. I actually prefer the way it was from say the forties thru the seventies.
Not really a fan of the college football playoffs for many reasons.
This is exactly what guys were saying 30 years ago about a playoff system. We will absolutely have a 20 plus team playoff soon. And equating a game in September regarding fan interest to a playoff is not realistic. You say Ohio State/Oregon was a “de facto” playoff and didn’t sell out. It’s because it wasn’t a de facto playoff game at all. Just like Clemson/UGA in September isn’t. An expanded playoff will keep fans interested much longer just like the wildcards have in baseball. Hope is what keeps the money coming which is why expansion is being talked about.Stadiums are already not full as it is. Ohio State didn’t sell out their game against Oregon, which could be a de facto playoff game by the time the year is over. LSU didn’t sell out against Florida. Notre Dame has ended their decades long sell out streak. Even Alabama struggles to sell out games. Increasing the number of teams in the playoff is not going to do anything to affect that.
And you can say it’s about the name on the front and players sitting out won’t affect people’s interests, but that doesn’t make it true. When you have stars like Christian McCaffrey, Kyle Pitts, Jamarr Chase, etc sitting out of playoff games, that’s going to turn fans off.
There’s literally no need for 20 teams to be in a playoff, and it will never happen for numerous reasons. If it does there will be some serious revisions to the current scheduling format
20+ playoff either makes a season too long or you cut games. Don't see that happening. What would make sense, and make the regular season far more interesting, is 10 conferences.... conference winners in, bottoms four ( by ranking) play round one to reduce it to 8 teams. The only thing the "committee" gets to do is fill in the brackets.This is exactly what guys were saying 30 years ago about a playoff system. We will absolutely have a 20 plus team playoff soon. And equating a game in September regarding fan interest to a playoff is not realistic. You say Ohio State/Oregon was a “de facto” playoff and didn’t sell out. It’s because it wasn’t a de facto playoff game at all. Just like Clemson/UGA in September isn’t. An expanded playoff will keep fans interested much longer just like the wildcards have in baseball. Hope is what keeps the money coming which is why expansion is being talked about.