After Alabama and Georgia thoroughly dominated the semifinals and set up a final featuring two SEC teams for the third time in a decade, talk of playoff expansion heated up once again. As usual, that is exactly the wrong approach to fixing the parity “problem.”
Nick Saban commented on expansion during Monday’s championship teleconference:
Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban, who’s coached in the CFP seven of the eight years of the system, commented on the push for expansion during his teleconference on Monday.
“I don’t know that expanding — if this is the best four teams and they played each other, I don’t see the logic in it if we had more teams there would be better games,” Saban said.