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Mar
25
2018

Does Loyola Chicago’s run to the Final 4 mean the College Football Playoffs should expand?

Loyola Chicago’s run to the Final 4 means the College Football Playoffs should expand. Over and over and I see this all over twitter.

College Basketball has over 300 teams playing at the Division 1 level. The beauty of the NCAA Tournament is that every single one of them has a shot to get into the Big Dance. You can argue too many mid-majors are left out, but they still had the opportunity to get in. Loyola Chicago might be playing in the Missouri Valley Conference, but that’s a 32 win team. How do I know that’s not the best team in college basketball? They may yet win the national title.

In college football it continues to irk me that the Power 5 conferences have locked out the Group of 5 schools. There are over 130 FBS schools and basically half are eliminated from the playoffs before the season starts. I don’t care how it happens but the Group of 5 schools need someway into the college football playoff. Either with an 8 team playoff, and the 5 Power 5 Champs + 2 Wild Card Teams + Best Group of 5, or 7 highest ranked power 5 schools + Best Group of 5 team.

You can expand the playoffs by 1 team, and make the 4 seed play the top Group of 5 team, rather than giving give your 4 seed a defacto home game ala Alabama this year. Until the Group of 5 has an avenue into the playoff format, college football’s post-season won’t come close to college basketball’s.

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