The College Football Playoff – the system we’ve always dreamed about – is finally here, but it’s getting lost in the shuffle.
This year’s games were played on New Year’s Eve to ratings that were half of what the same games brought last year. New Year’s Eve was a factor to be sure, but so was the setup.
When you throw 40ish bowl games on the board and circle two of them about 4/5 of the way down the board it gets convoluted. There’s bowl games before it, and bowl games after it. Here we are watching 3-4 bowls per day for two straight weeks minus Sundays – but let’s circle one of those days in the middle and hold our most important games.