Best thing about 12-team Playoff? Texas, Notre Dame can miss it | Opinion
What makes 12 teams the right number for College Football Playoff? That Texas and Notre Dame can still miss out.
The 12-team college football playoff strikes a delicate balance between risk and reward. It allows teams like Texas, Notre Dame, Alabama and Ohio State to be on the outside looking in, which adds excitement and drama to the competition. A playoff expanded to 20 or 24 teams would eliminate this sense of unpredictability, leaving only a handful of teams with guaranteed spots and robbing the sport of its high-stakes regular season.
While a larger playoff might generate more revenue and make more money, it would come at the expense of the very essence of college football - the thrill of the unknown and the chance for even the underdog to make history.
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