The worst part about the College Football Playoff cannot be fixed. Cannot be legislated away by changing the bracket format. Cannot be solved by replacing a few folks on the selection committee.
You know why?
Because, the worst part of college football’s postseason is that it’s not the regular season. The playoff cannot mimic a fall Saturday stuffed with 50 games, including the conference tussles and the rivalry clashes that made you fall in love with this sport.
You can eradicate automatic bids from the playoff. You can tweak the selection process. You can snuff out Cinderella. And, perhaps, those are worthwhile explorations after two first-round games involving Group of Five teams spiraled into predictable blowouts.
And, still, none of those modifications would fix the playoff’s unfixable issue, that 50 games are better than four, that the regular-season rat race is superior to the bracketed conclusion.
