Rich Eisen on How/If the College Football Playoff Can Fix Its Blowout Games Problem

Rich Eisen discuss what the College Football Playoff would look like if they’d stuck with the old 4-team format instead of expanding to 12 this year.

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[jahnvantuttlesma]

We got three good quarterfinal games (1 classic) with only one blowout (which happened to be the most anticipated game). There isn't a crisis like many are suggesting.

[BigTimeGG]

Hasn't college football always been filled to the brim with blowout games? The problem is the talent gap between teams, it's not an even playing field.

[GENOTALKSCOMICS]

There are two points that often get lost in this conversation:

1. The match-ups matter. You can have rankings, seeding, win-loss records, conference championships, bye weeks, etc. But sometimes you go into a game where none of those metrics tell the story of 1v1 player match-ups on the field, offensive vs defensive units and each team as a whole.

2. Sometimes, it just isn't your day. Just as Dan Lanning said after they lost. College football coaches, players, fans and media know that well.

[RandomYNG]

This year is exactly why the sport needed an expanded playoff. Without it, the best team in college football wouldn't have made the playoffs. A 4 team playoff is too subjective

[gregjross]

If the 12 team didn’t exist we wouldn’t have gotten Texas vs ASU. Media making things a big deal that aren’t.

[sladebygaming]

This year is still better than anything we've seen in the past and has a ton of room for improvement.

I think the biggest area of improvement is the regular season. I think the lopsided games are a result of how little is determined from teams mainly playing in meaningless games all season. Most weeks there are 1-3 games featuring 2 ranked teams.

[julianwatts]

Why do we act like blowouts are indicative of anything other than one team played way better that day. The nfl has blow outs in the championship games and Super Bowl all the time

[Tommy]

I don't see what the issue is. Blowouts happen in a sport. The only way to prevent a blowout is to have fixed matches.

[outta_the_blue]

The goal of the playoff isn’t to have close games. While it’d be nice, the goal is to find ONE deserving winner

[kona]

In The last 6 years, national championship games have ALL been blowouts. The closest game was 33-18 back in 2022.

[knutearmstrong]

The old playoffs and new years six were full of blow outs. The point of the expanded playoff is it will help level a recruiting gap and make more competitive games in future years

[kyletucker]

Dont have teams wait a month to play, dont force your TOP 4 SEEDS to play neutral sight games while others get to have home games for having worse records, and dont artificially boost the seeding of teams so the team that worked the hardest to have the best record has to face one of the best teams in the tournament in its first game after a month off.

[chs_ambs]

Yeah. That was total hypocrisy not letting Florida State in last year, then turning around and giving Georgia no. 2 this year.

[danielrutstein]

Funny the new format would’ve been amazing if conference realignments never happened

[collinsjon]

"Who's going to look at Greg Sankey in the face and say 'Your team doesn't make it'...?"

So you're admitting that the SEC has impartial influence over the selection process? Who woulda thunk it?

[michaelknapp]

I’m an Oregon ducks fan and I think the lag time before games is way too long. The last time Oregon played in a game before OSU was December 7th. January first is almost 3 and a half weeks later. That’s too long of a wait. The committee has to make some changes with that.

[t.k.]

All I know is Oregon shouldn’t have had to play OSU in the quarterfinals, and the top seeded teams should have had their Quarterfinal games at their home stadiums.

[careyfreeman]

Not just win a home game, but also pocket millions of dollars in revenue and exposure from said home game. I can't believe nobody brings this up. I'd feel cheated with a bye.

[thecommish]

I really like this format. Love the first-round games on campus. It is almost better to host one of these first-round games from a financial standpoint as the school can rake in a lot more money in terms of concessions, hotels, restaurants, etc. Blowouts are going to happen, and people are going to be upset that their team is out of the 12, but it was good to see schools like SMU, Boise, Arizona State get a fair chance.

[jameskingsbery]

There's no good way to do a college football playoff system without a deep overhaul of the system. College football still has the system of an amateur competition, while practically being a professional minor league.