Nobody In College Football Is Any Good
If you asked me to name all of the college football teams that are really good this season, I could easily count them on my fingers without needing a second hand. There's a non-zero chance Indiana is the second-best team in the country.
On Saturday, No. 4 Ohio State was ahead of No. 3 Penn State when time ran out in a battle of who could try to lose that game more. No. 2 Georgia was tied with Florida in the fourth quarter with the Gators on their third-string quarterback. No. 7 Tennessee struggled all night with a dogshit Kentucky team before escaping with a win. No. 10 Texas A&M got boatraced by 4-3 South Carolina. No. 11 Clemson got killed at home by Louisville. The other No. 11 Iowa State — shoutout AP Poll ties — lost to Texas Tech at home, dropping a game with one of the easiest schedules you'll ever see for a power conference team. And this didn't even feel like a crazy weekend.
Come December, we will fill out a College Football Playoff bracket with 12 teams and likely seven or eight of them should be playing in something akin to the LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk — yes, that's a real game. And I'm sure those atmospheres for the on-campus games are going to be unbelievable. Some of the games might even end up being pretty good! But the "more football" argument for expanding the Playoff didn't even make it through one season before the entire sport collapsed in on itself. This year is a perfect example of four teams being more than enough and even just two likely being sufficient.
People think they want to see all these teams make the Playoff, but I promise you don't. Everyone says they love upsets in the NCAA Tournament, too, until you're staring down the barrel of a VCU-Wichita State game in the Final Four and then all of a sudden everybody is rooting for the blue bloods. If we had 12 deserving Playoff teams, that would be awesome. But we don't, and in an era where wins are going to be even harder to come by with these expanded conferences, it's not going to be very likely we will in any given year.
Great news, though: we've already expanded the CFP to 14 teams in two years. Thirty-two will be here before you know it. Feel the electricity!