College Football Backward Expansion Essay

Jack Martin

Mrs Stall, Mr Britton, Mr Jablonka

Introduction to humanities

13 April 2023

College football playoff expansion

Ever since 2014 college football has had a 4 team playoff format which was a very non inclusive format and he’s been controversial since it came out. This expansion will allow more teams to be in the playoffs and have higher goals and more realistic expectations for the season. Since this format came out in 2014, a lot of the same teams have been playing in the playoffs as Alabama has made it every year except 2, Ohio State has made the playoffs 5 times and Clemson has made it 6 times. The college football playoff expansion is beneficial to the college season because players will have new NIL opportunities,

Still however “Players aren't supposed to get any compensation tied for performance, and recruits cannot sign any NIL deal contingent on going to any particular school. As usual, some schools and players got ahead of the process and cashed in early, while others didn't and got left behind” (College Football HQ). However “Booster involvement in recruiting has always been against the rules, and the NCAA is stepping up its enforcement of that rule to include any potential NIL violations that may involve boosters using collectives to lure recruits to their schools with the promise of big NIL deals” (College Football HQ). Another way expansion will positively affect CFB is with Super conferences. For as “At the rate things are going, three 20-team conferences will emerge and break away from the NCAA by 2030 while taking a European country's economy worth of money with them” (Sports Illustrated). This shows that super conferences are very expensive and have lots of depth in their conferences. “ For this hypothetical, let’s just say that the Big Ten and SEC each have 20 teams total, with four divisions of five teams apiece. Each

NIL is a way for collegiate athletes to make money from their talents. However this does not mean that colleges can pay players to play football for them. Super conference’s are conference’s that are getting bigger and bigger with new teams joining these conferences and it’s creating a different format of CFB because these conferences are just stacking great teams onto great teams and this would allow for lots of teams from these conferences to make the playoffs. The regular season has always been such an exhilaratingly enjoyable part of CFB and now teams will try even harder to compete for a chance to be one of the 12 teams that end up in the playoffs. Now that you know how I see the playoff expansion, I’m curious to know what you think of how this will change the way college football is