It’s December and bowls haven’t started yet, which means what it always means: we’re talking about expanding the playoff field again. This time, it was spurred by that ultimate agent of chaotic speculation in college football, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who suggested in remarks this week that an eight-team playoff could be instituted prior to the expiration of the current 4-team format’s existing contract.
Now, personally, I am not a fan of an 8-team playoff. I think for every year that a worthy #5 is left out of a 4-team field, we’d have another year where a clearly unworthy #8 seed is let in.