We are a country of 32–ounce sodas and two–foot chili dogs; a country that had a 64–team college basketball playoff and expanded it; that went west until we hit the ocean, then picked up Alaska and Hawaii; that manages to expand everything except the space between airline seats. So going from a four–team to eight–team college football playoff feels inevitable.
I understand. It’s what most people want.
This is about the price you will pay when you get it.
For most of its history, college football was a regional sport, driven by historical rivalries, and defined by the best regular season in sports.