You see the SEC and Big Ten pushing for 24 teams in the playoff and I just think about the 1992 SEC Championship Game in Birmingham. That was the first one ever and the whole stadium knew it meant something real. Now we are talking about letting teams with four losses into a tournament that stretches into February.
I remember when the only path to a national title was going through the Sugar Bowl or the Orange Bowl and you had to earn your spot by winning your conference outright. The 1979 team did not need a committee to tell them they were the best. They went out and proved it against Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl and that was that.
This realignment mess with Texas and Oklahoma coming over and the Pac-12 being scattered to the wind has stripped the soul out of this sport. We used to hate Tennessee because they were Tennessee and Auburn because they were Auburn. Now it is all about TV markets and revenue sharing.
The playoff expansion is just another way for the suits to squeeze mo...