College Football Playoff: Building the perfect chaos scenario

What happens if this actually happens? Chaos. If this road map holds there will be no way that the College Football Playoff Committee can satiate the masses. Yet it’s not the masses that are going to force expansion to happen. Money will.

Here are some of the big market teams that will be sitting at home: Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, Miami, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, USC, Washington, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.

Imagine the pandemonium when UCF and Wisconsin draw playoff berths and Alabama and Oklahoma do not. That swap would cause the ratings to swoon and the gate revenue to collapse. People aren’t going to boycott the College Football Playoff, but the national interest would dwindle rather quickly.

ESPN inked a 12-year deal to televise the College Football Playoff in its current four-team format. The logistics of how to include additional teams will need to take that into consideration, but ESPN is going to be willing to receive all offers after the sting of Playoff ratings without so many big-ticket teams.

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Since the College Football Playoff’s inception in 2014 there has been a movement to expand the field. There is no silver bullet to make that happen, and one wild season won’t make things change over night. However, even if nothing changes, the chaos that unfolds in this scenario would be worth every penny.