College Football Playoffs - Can We Stop Complaining For Two Seconds?

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Indiana and Army are unexpected candidates for making the first-ever 12-team playoff

As the ever-increasing intensity and stakes climb in college sports, partly because of financial implications, more and more teams (and the SEC as usual) are on the campaign trail making their case

Folks, I'm old enough to remember when writers, yes journalists, got to decide who the top two teams were in the country. Then, they didn't even play each other in a bowl game because of conference and bowl agreements. 

No, they'd play their respective bowl games, and then those same writers would decide who looked better in their bowl game and crown them champions.

Ah yes, what a time to be alive. We have an actual playoff. With home games and weather and odd matchups, oh my.

But wait!! Most of the college football world is agast with dismay as their team or conference is being treated poorly—at least, that's what they'll tell you. 

That's right, the SEC and their greedy folks want to consume half the field. The Big Ten, the other cash cow, wants at least four. And before you say it, yes we want the 12 best teams. Or do we? The playoffs have baked in auto-berths for 4 conferences and a G5 school. So the "12 best teams" argument is already null and void. 


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Look, we can go round and round about a 1-loss Indiana versus a 3-loss SEC school. What typically happens in that case, if you collect all the comments online, is that everyone's schedule sucks. And if everyone's schedule sucks, then the whole argument for your particular team or conference loses merit, and we can go back to records.


Do these arguments sound familiar? Yes, well who decides who's ranked BEFORE the season? Many of these "Top 25" wins were against teams that aren't ranked, or over ranked.

 


"No quality wins" - wow. So basically there's a large swath of "fans" who think most of college football is low quality. What's all the buzz about then? 

As a guy who played D3 college football, I can tell you that every win is a quality win. And a Big Ten team that goes undefeated, or 11-1, is a really good football team.  

But I'm not here to convince you of Indiana, or any other team. I'm here to simply ask, please for all that is holy, STOP COMPLAINING!!!!!!! We finally have a playoff, with home games. We've waited this long, and not ONE SINGLE PLAYOFF GAME HAS BEEN PLAYED!!

Good grief, is nobody happy? Has over-abundance spoiled everyone? 

Not to mention, there's plenty of football to be played. These things often pan out over the last few weeks. 

"Loser 12" - what a statement. In my best John Madden voice: "Here's a guy that never played competitive sports past Junior High." 

No conference is a loser conference. The Mountain West has possibly the best running back since Barry Sanders. 

It appears to me, the "talking heads" at a particular network have been in bed with one prominent conference and have convinced most of the nation of college football fans, that most college football sucks.

I'm not buying it, and I for one will thoroughly enjoy the playoffs. 

If you don't enjoy seeing Indiana or Army in the playoffs, I'd suggest you please refrain from watching March Madness. Because, spoiler alert, teams you've probably never heard of and have no chance to win the title, actually play in the tournament. 

And that's what makes March Madness special. And I hope the CFP becomes special also, with teams you may not care for or believe in to win anything. 

I will not be complaining, I will be enjoying what I've waited this long to see. A playoff, not an SEC-Big 10 invitational.


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