When the College Football Playoff was founded, it purposefully chose the blandest name possible.
“The College Football Playoff.”
That’s it. That’s all. It was a rare moment of vanilla in a sport known for its garishness — the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparilla Bowl, anyone?
“We did want a simple and descriptive name,” executive director Bill Hancock said. “We did know that [the brand] would grow organically.”
Well, it has, indeed, grown and somehow even something as simple as the College Football Playoff isn’t accurate.
Stop the charade, this is no playoff for college football.