Well, the sweeky wheel gets the oil.

It was a matter of time before the NCAA brought the playoff system to the picture.  The four best teams get to duke it out for the Championship while six other teams get to play in the Championship Bowl, which involves the typically Rose Bowl. Orange Bowl and a Bowl to be named (probably something like the Fiesta Bowl or something in those lines).

Now the age old question has been answered; but I got another question to pose.

Why four teams?  Major League Baseball has now five, the NFL has six, and the National Hockey League and NBA have eight.

It seems like eight would give each conference winner a chance to win the Championship instead of four that are being picked by a committee.  Of course they’ll pick a Clemson, or a Alabama or LSU over University of Oregon or BYU.  Yeah football season would be 16 games like the NFL, but some of these kids will be playing in the league one day and will be playing 16+ games a season.

But looking at it too, it gives these kids a change to miss less school and earn their degrees (which it seems like some of these athletes skip over for the ideology of millions of dollars).  Also too, it prevents long-term injuries and damage to these kids bodies in a physically demanding game.

It also allows the best of the best to play instead of if you win six games, you get to play in the postseason.  It makes it more special to everyone involved that happen to be playing in this four game system.

It’s a starting point, but I can see them adding more teams down the road as we close in the the contract expiration in 2025.