Reflecting on the Impact of 12-Team College Football Playoff

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00:00But, you know, it's not just the college football playoff that we saw in the 12-team era, but the

00:04first year in the 12-team era around college football in what it meant for the sport as a

00:11whole. How will you look back on this 2024 college football season? I mean, look, again, as somebody

00:19who was anti-expansion to begin with, when you look at the final six, right, so we were always

00:23contending over, right, the top four in the final two. If you look at the final six teams in the

00:28rankings, all six of those teams were in the final eight and four of those teams made it to

00:33the final four. So, again, when you are 9 through 12, it's like you don't really have a legitimate

00:40stake to winning this thing, but we do it because it's money and it's more games and more eyeballs

00:44and more advertisers and everything else. So, I mean, let's, you know, outside of the rare outlier

00:49that's going to happen at some point in time if we do enough iterations of a 12-team playoff,

00:53in reality, 9 through 12 have no chance to actually win the title, period. We know that

00:58going in. We're all willing to accept it as a fact and, you know, sure, a 12-seed at some point is

01:03going to upset a 5-seed and the whole world's going to be like, this is why we do this. This

01:06is why we play. Oh, it's Florida Gulf Coast. Oh, it's George Mason. Oh, shut up, okay. It's

01:12completely ridiculous. They have no chance to win the thing and we know that and that's not why.

01:16That said, again, you can't say it wasn't a success, although the viewership from what I

01:21understand from the National Championship game was not as high as many have expected

01:25and maybe that again, you know, maybe that's because it's hard to figure out because Notre

01:29Dame has a huge fan base as does Ohio State and a fan base that travels well. You see the Atlanta

01:35Airport on Tuesday morning? It was a mess. That said, I'm not sure why the viewership wasn't what

01:41it was. Maybe they need to just look at when they play the games and do it more on a weekend, do it

01:45on a Saturday night and be willing to contend with the NFL playoffs or something like that. I don't

01:50know. Maybe the answer is do it on the off championship weekend between the Super Bowl

01:54and the conference championship games in the NFL. I don't know. There's a lot of different ways to

01:59place that.