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Joe Klatt explains why college football will benefit from CFP expansion plan
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The College Football Playoff will be expanding from 4 to 12 teams. When it will happen, whether that’s in 2026 as planned or can be coordinated sooner, remains to be seen.
It also remains to be seen what the change will mean for the college football.
Will programs like Alabama, Ohio State, and Georgia remain elite year after year, or will the new format create more parity in the game?
One observer who isn’t worried about parity but who believes this change was a must for the good of the game is Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt.
He explained his reasoning on his podcast.
Why is CFP expansion so important for college football?@JoelKlatt breaks it down ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/66NfYAnF8w
— The Joel Klatt Show: A CFB Pod (@JoelKlattShow) September 5, 2022
“Let’s get into some of the numbers as to why the four-team playoff does not work,” Klatt said. “We’ve had 13 teams in the current format since its inception in the last eight years. That’s only 10 percent of college football.”
Klatt added that making the Playoff legitimizes a team’s season and more teams simply need to have that chance.
“If you retroactively go back those last eight years, back to 2014, 41 teams would have made playoffs,” Klatt added. “That’s a huge deal. That’s nearly a third of college football, just under, about 32 percent. … I don’t care if they lose in the first round. You have to understand, the only way to define yourself as successful in modern college football is to make the playoff. And only 10 percent of the teams in the last eight years have been able to say that. That’s a problem.”
"Chris Wallace covers college football for Saturday Down South. He has covered college athletics for multiple newspapers and also worked previously for Rivals.com and GolfChannel.com."
