5 changes that would drastically improve college football

Expand to a 32-team college football playoff

Mike Leach has talked about an expanded college football playoff for years and brought it up again this week after a longshot won the Kentucky Derby last week.

His point was basically that no team is able to improve and get better over the course of a college football season and contend for a playoff spot.

While a longshot college football national champion is highly unlikely, the playoff does need to be expanded and instead of messing around with eight teams or 12, college football should go to 32.

I know that seems like a big number and that means that the national champion would need to play a lot of games. But, here is where it’s all connected.

If you eliminate conference championship games, that opens up another week for the playoff and with 32 teams getting in, conference championship games would be pointless anyway.

The regular season could also be reduced from 12 games down to 11. Most non-conference games are guaranteed wins for the major programs anyway, so cut back on a guarantee game and have more that actually matter.

Last year, Georgia played 15 games. Under this model, the Bulldogs could play 16 games, so there would be one extra. The majority of teams would be back to 11 or 12 and on the whole, that would be a good thing.

Now, we’ll break down our idea for an expanded playoff further but in order for it to work, college football needs automatic playoff berths and also home playoff games.