Michael Wilbon was a guest on “The Tony Kornheiser Show” on Tuesday, with the ESPN “Pardon the Interruption” co-hosts discussing the new format of the College Football Playoff. Of course, it’s good news for ESPN should it retain the rights past the 2025 season despite the amount of money it, or whoever ends up with the new contract, will need to shell out.

While Kornheiser is a fan of the Playoff expanding from 4 teams to 12 — the 6 highest-ranked conference champions and 6 at-large teams — Wilbon likes it the way it is.

“I don’t need it,” he said. “I was one of the people out there yelling for a playoff 35 years ago, and nobody wanted it. ‘It’s going to ruin the fabric of college football’ and all of these clowns, all these morons and idiots yelling about how it’s going to ruin college football. It made college football even more irresistible. So I don’t need 12.”

He made an analogy to another sport to describe what he foresaw college football turning into unless it had a commissioner to provide “proper leadership” for the sport.

“I think college football could go the way of boxing, that you’re still going to always have huge events, but…you had all these champions, who were self-declared, and all of a sudden, boxing was like, ‘What are you talking about?'” he said.

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