The Cougars coach says the field should be bigger than the current four teams, but this isn’t college basketball. Even expanding to eight teams could weaken the regular season and the bowl system.
Mike Leach’s playoff-expansion rant might have been his most entertaining of the season, and considering he’s the best quote in the Pac-12, that’s saying something. There was a Huck Finn reference, an aside about him being unable to find groceries when his wife is watching football, and a call for a 16-team — or possibly 64-team — college football playoff.
It was 10 minutes of unprompted gold that caused much of the country to spit out its drink in delight.