Nick Saban Has Thoughts On College Football Playoff Expansion

The CFP has also taken away attention from the conference championships, just like basketball. Ask any Georgia fan what they remember from 2017. Is it winning the conference for the first time in 12 years or losing the CFP title game?

I fear that if you do away with bowls it will only make the rich that much richer, and the poor or even the middle of the road teams worse off. The bowls still mean something to me, and I don’t think doing away with them serves college football very well. It certainly wouldn’t serve fans well if you do away with the extra games to enjoy at the end of the season. Bad idea IMO.

Easy fix for that .... bowls should have been done away with at the start of any playoff system. As to player satisfaction it'll be more with a legit playoff resulting in a honest top 10 finish than the popularity poll we have now. And why should a few big towns reap the benefits a small college town could use?

99 percent of bowl games never mattered anyway. It's tough to get 4 great teams. Anymore is too much. 8 would have 2 and 3 loss teams in and that's worse for the sport. You want to make the playoffs, win your games. I don't give a dam if you win 10 conference championships if u have 2 or 3 losses. U don't belong in the cfp playoffs.

The same people who picked the president should pick the national champion. Why bother with the details?

Expanded playoff system equals more SEC schools in the playoffs, which guarantees more Natl Championships for the SEC. Of course let’s expand the playoffs!!!

The same fricking questions over and over. Jesus Christ.

The sport can barely field 4 competitive teams with true parity as it is. Expanding is the silliest idea imaginable.

The National Championship is a myth. It matters not if it is named by polls, a binary “championship” game, a 4 school playoff, or a 64 school playoff. But Saban is right, the current playoff system has cheapened the tradition and prestige of the former bowl game system and has stolen the luster from dozens of schools and hundreds of players.