DALLAS – It’s that time of year again. When everybody starts talking about post-season reform in college football and potential College Football Playoff expansion.
Recent success of teams in the Group of Five (Sun Belt, C-USA, Mountain West, MAC, American) has led to a rise in talk about CFP expansion to accommodate teams who cannot crack the metrics used to qualify teams for the playoff. UCF is riding the nation’s longest active win streak in the FBS with 24-straight wins and a 12-0 record, good enough for the New Year’s Six Fiesta Bowl but not the CFP.
The other side of the debate is how insignificant many lower-tier bowls outside of the CFP and New Year’s Six now seem.