re: Tony Petitti: Big Ten wants more games with CFP implications

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”We want fans to think that you know a game in the second week of November, even if you've already lost two or three games, still has a lot of value. That's the goal."When you're as deep as we are, we've got to do things to make sure that we have the access to the postseason that we think we deserve and has to be earned on the field,"

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Statements like this really piss me off. First off, until we overemphasized the national championship, games late in the season did matter a lot regardless of your record. Whether it was to get a good bowl, win the conference, beat a rival, or just straight pride, late season games did matter. Now if all that matters is making one of the 12 slots for the playoff, then yeah I guess a team with some losses really does have little to play for. But that’s the world the conferences and their commissioners and staffs created, so what’s his complaint.

Second, it sounds insane to say that you need to do something to make the playoff while at the same time saying that your conference is super deep. That’s a contradiction, either you are that deep and get teams in or your not and don’t. The results speak for themselves and the past two and a half decade show that the big 10 isn’t that deep. Complain all you want but that’s reality.