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Joel Klatt calls out College Football Playoff for ‘plagiarizing’ his idea for 12-team field
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Fox Sports college football analyst Joel Klatt believes the College Football Playoff committee was copying his notes, so to speak, before it announced plans last week to expand the 4-team CFP format to 12 teams in a few years.
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“Folks, you’ve wanted it. I’ve wanted it,” Klatt said. “One of the reasons is that the 4-team format in its current model has been detrimental to the sport.”
Klatt is very happy the CFP committee is finally making the change that’s been talked about endlessly for years now. But he’s a little ticked off that it decided on exactly what he wanted.
“It just so happens it looks real familiar,” said Klatt, before flashing back to a video of him saying that 8 teams, 10 teams or 16 teams wouldn’t be the right number for a new format for different reasons but that 12 would be exactly right.
In the same clip, Klatt said a change to a 14-team playoff would be OK, too.
“For a bunch of chancellors and presidents, it looks an awful lot like plagiarism,” said Klatt.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
