Nine different teams (Oregon, Ohio State, Alabama, Florida State, Clemson, Washington, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Notre Dame) have received invitations to the four-team College Football Playoffs (CFP) in the seven seasons of its existence. The playoff committee’s selection process has drawn the ire of many college football fan bases, notably fans of TCU and Baylor in 2014, Central Florida in 2017, and Texas A&M in 2020. Now imagine if the CFP regulars, plus some other “brand-name’’ schools broke away to form their own Super League and that decided the national championship.
Well, that’s essentially the potential situation world football or as Americans call it, soccer, is facing right now.