Stephen A. Smith is absolutely right about this 24-team playoff nonsense and I will die on that hill. Back in the 1998 season when we won the Sun Bowl and finished ranked, you knew exactly what you had to do to prove yourself. Win your conference or earn your spot the old fashioned way. Now they want to let in half the sport and call it a playoff. The Big 12 aligning with this garbage tells me everything I need to know about where this league is headed. BYU at the top of the post-spring power rnakings just proves my point. We used to have real battles with Texas and Oklahoma that meant something. Now we are begging for participation trophies in a bloated bracket. Gary Patterson would have laughed these people out of the room. The game was better when you earned everything you got.