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Reflecting on the Impact of 12-Team College Football Playoff
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1/23/2025
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But, you know, it's not just the college football playoff that we saw in the 12-team era, but the
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first year in the 12-team era around college football in what it meant for the sport as a
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whole. How will you look back on this 2024 college football season? I mean, look, again, as somebody
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who was anti-expansion to begin with, when you look at the final six, right, so we were always
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contending over, right, the top four in the final two. If you look at the final six teams in the
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rankings, all six of those teams were in the final eight and four of those teams made it to
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the final four. So, again, when you are 9 through 12, it's like you don't really have a legitimate
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stake to winning this thing, but we do it because it's money and it's more games and more eyeballs
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and more advertisers and everything else. So, I mean, let's, you know, outside of the rare outlier
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that's going to happen at some point in time if we do enough iterations of a 12-team playoff,
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in reality, 9 through 12 have no chance to actually win the title, period. We know that
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going in. We're all willing to accept it as a fact and, you know, sure, a 12-seed at some point is
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going to upset a 5-seed and the whole world's going to be like, this is why we do this. This
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is why we play. Oh, it's Florida Gulf Coast. Oh, it's George Mason. Oh, shut up, okay. It's
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completely ridiculous. They have no chance to win the thing and we know that and that's not why.
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That said, again, you can't say it wasn't a success, although the viewership from what I
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understand from the National Championship game was not as high as many have expected
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and maybe that again, you know, maybe that's because it's hard to figure out because Notre
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Dame has a huge fan base as does Ohio State and a fan base that travels well. You see the Atlanta
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Airport on Tuesday morning? It was a mess. That said, I'm not sure why the viewership wasn't what
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it was. Maybe they need to just look at when they play the games and do it more on a weekend, do it
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on a Saturday night and be willing to contend with the NFL playoffs or something like that. I don't
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know. Maybe the answer is do it on the off championship weekend between the Super Bowl
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and the conference championship games in the NFL. I don't know. There's a lot of different ways to
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place that.
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