Could a 32-team College Football Playoff bracket work?
By Austin Lloyd
How it would better the entire postseason
The plethora of bowl games that college football currently has is intended to accomplish what a 32-team playoff bracket would, and that is to give fans more to watch that would likely include their own favorite team.
The difference between the two ideas, though, is that participating in a grand playoff bracket actually gives your school something worth fighting for, a national championship, unlike taking part in the Mayo Bowl (pictured above).
Smaller bowl games can stick around as part of the postseason festivities, but let’s not try to convince ourselves that a battle between a pair of 6-6 teams is some legendary event that you would not want to miss for the world. The bulk of sports media deems most of them as painfully unwatchable money-grabs anyway.
Instead, the little bowls can serve as college football’s version of the NIT: something totally pointless, but that will at least be watched by fans of whoever is in it while the big dance games are on their commercial breaks.