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Kirk Herbstreit Rips College Football's Playoff System

by Larry Leo

December 17, 202032 Comments

Kirk Herbstreit Rips College Football's Playoff System

Matthew O'Haren-USA TODAY Sports

While on Wednesday's Keyshawn, JWill & Zubin Show, ESPN's Kirk Herbstreit didn't hold back when going in on the College Football Playoff system...

quote:
"Our postseason is as bad as there is and we have got to figure out a system that opens up opportunities. The season ends January 12, I can already tell you 2021 Ohio State's coming out of the Big Ten, Clemson's coming out of the ACC, Alabama’s coming out of the SEC. I can say in 2023, Ohio State is coming out of the Big Ten, Clemson’s coming out of the ACC and Alabama (in the SEC). … If that's where we are is that right, is that healthy for the sport when 98 or 99 percent of the participants realize they don't have a chance before the season starts? We've got to look at this 2020 year and realize that we have to tweak the system for the betterment of the sport. We’re at a fork in the road right now on a lot of levels and we’ve got to look at some potential changes."

(The Big Lead)

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Originally published on TigerDroppings.com

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TrouserTrout•59 months

Maybe when OSU and Alabama don’t win their conference stop finding ways to put them in. That’s a start.

TigerHemi•59 months

Totally agree, great point.

jbird7•59 months

100% agreed. This is the problem. College football is the only sport I can think of where you don’t get penalized for not winning your conference/division.

elcid•59 months

1-AA had a 16 game playoff. Cut the regular season by one game to account for the CONF championships and then field a 16 team playoff.

Texas Weazel•59 months

Nah. This makes too much sense to work.

Nix to Twillie•59 months

Bingo. I’m even for eliminating conference championship games. They’re pointless. If Florida beats Bama, Bama still goes to the playoff. If Georgia beat LSU last year, LSU would have still gone to the playoff.

gamecockman12•59 months

He's got a point. Hence why March Madness is so popular. Everyone feels like they have a chance once the tournament starts. College Football is getting stale with the same 4-5 teams in the playoff discussion every year.

kciDAtaE•59 months

March madness is fun bc of the shear number of games and brackets. You can’t have football teams playing two games in a weekend. 9 times out of 10, the final four is chalk

gamecockman12•59 months

There's a ton of bowl games too but that has nothing to do with creating more excitement. It's the possibility of anything happening during the tournament which creates the excitement. College Football is lacking significantly in that area.

OzChuffnugg•59 months

Umm..rarely is the final four 4 1 seeds.

LSUVAFAN•59 months

This would have been the perfect season for a 8 team playoff system. They blew it!

jdutto3•59 months

Power 5 conference champions should be allowed in, one team from group of 5, and two at large teams. This gives EVERYONE a legitimate shot to make the tourney. Like in CBB, you always have a chance. This also makes the sport more national. Right now, its completely regionalized to the south east and while that's great for us in the south, the sport is losing popularity everywhere else. This is not good for the game. Oh, and pay these kids so they stop "opting out." Let's stop kidding ourselves with this amateur athlete crap. It's not the 1940s.

abellsujr•59 months

Funny he only starts this shite when it affects Ohio State. Nobody gives a shite.

brewdrees•59 months

I'm watching regardless, shut up Herbie. Clemson done after this year!!!

Rex Feral•59 months

WTF? The same tools who wanted a playoff are now having buyer's remorse.

TFH•59 months

They set it up to find the best four teams. That’s what it does. The playoff system isn’t where the problem is, it goes much deeper. There’s no parity in recruiting. The four to six top teams take the top recruits every year. Dig hard into recruiting practices if you want change. The people in charge rn don’t want change because they’re freaking raking in the dough.

CajunBullet•59 months

It all come down to the almighty "Dollar" $$$. Just follow the trail and you'll see why it hasn't and won't change.

10MTNTiger•59 months

Did he cry?

MSUDawg98•59 months

I've heard some talk of people wanting to go back to the BCS system so it's not completely subjective.

A-TOWNUAFAN•59 months

So we don’t want the four best teams? Or do we want who Herbie or some bitching LSU fan wants?

FLTech•59 months

8 TEAM PLAYOFF WILL GET ME BACK INTO COLLEGE FOOTBALL.. UNTIL THEN, THE SPORT SUCKS

oline5264•59 months

Why not allow conference champions and conference runner-ups and then maybe 6 at large teams? That would be 16 teams. It’s puts great emphasis on winning your conference, rewards the runner up for having a good season, and with the at-large teams they can use the same criteria that they use for March Madness. Just a thought.

Nix to Twillie•59 months

He’s absolutely right. It’s people in a room sitting at desks that decide who the top 4 are. Shorten the season by 1 game, eliminate the pointless conference championship games, have a tournament the way they do at the FCS level, and done. Yeah, I know. Money. Find a way to make it some other way.

JackieTreehorn•59 months

Everybody gets a trophy. Stop keeping score.

jbird7•59 months

Power 5 champs and two at large. #1 seed get first round bye.

Vestigial Morgan•59 months

Ehh...i'm pretty sure he didn't have LSU coming out of the SEC last year. Just because Herbie says it ...doesn't mean it actually happens, and...no Coastal Carolina wouldnt win if playoffs were expanded. The issue is the Pac 12 and the Michigan schools really needs to get their act together

Deltatiger•59 months

you're right, coastal carolina wouldn't win it...this year. heck, they weren't even playing football in 2002! it's not apples to apples, but how many years did it take for gonzaga to finally get some recognition? it won't happen overnight but i'm in favor of expanding the playoffs (if you're not, that's fine, but save the "but what about their academics" BS).

Vestigial Morgan•59 months

I can tell you who the 1 seeds are going to be in march madness in a couple of years. UK Duke MI ST. KU. ..in the last 20 yrs there have been 10 distinct winners in basketball...all prominent basketball schools ..with UF and UVa being the quasi outliers. So to think that expanding it really does anything for parity in football..when it barely does it in bball. Football would be better if the PAC12 didn't suck and the MI schools could give osu a run.

sportjunkie69•59 months

99% of those teams should recruit better and hire better coaches.

Play_Neck•59 months

I personally don't want more than 4 teams, though. Too much for College FB after the season and would reduce the magic of bowl season even further. Those 3 teams are going to consistently out recruit everyone else if they keep their coaches and keep winning. It'd be the consistent top 3 teams if we just had a championship game without any playoff system. No one is going to limit the number of good recruits a team can get, just the total number.

CyrustheVirus•59 months

The “magic of bowl season” is gone. With the new option of opting out (quitting), it’s never coming back. Expanding the playoff is the way to save college football.

Kentucker•59 months

He said “the magic of bowl season.” LOL