Slices of Tuna: Slow down the CFP expansion talk
Are there really 24 playoff-worthy teams?
Three thoughts to take you into the weekend …
1. Slow down the CFP expansion talk
Remember the good ol’ days, when the college football world was laughing at the Big Ten’s leaked 24-team College Football Playoff proposal?
You know, three full months ago.
Now, the tenor has completely changed.
ACC commissioner Jim Phillips capped his conference’s spring meetings this week by voicing his support for the 24-team system. So, too, did Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark is on record as saying he wants 24.
Even some in the SEC — whose commissioner, Greg Sankey, is pretty much the lone holdout at this point — have done the same.
Didn’t most of these guys want 16 back in January, even if they couldn’t quite push that format across the finish line?
And at this time last year, wasn’t 14 the buzz, with a 4-4-2-2-1-1 format a popular talking point?
(That would be four guaranteed Big Ten berths, four guaranteed SEC berths, two guaranteed ACC berths, two guaranteed Big 12 berths, one guaranteed G5 berth and one at-large, for those who may be confused by such things.)
Seriously: These guys change their minds about postseason play the way my kids change their minds about what they want for dinner every night.
