All of a sudden, like a heat wave descending upon us in early summer, discussion in college football about a 12-team playoff ramped up considerably.
The news seemingly came out of the blue last week. A four-person subgroup of the College Football Playoff management committee recommended expanding the playoff field from four teams to 12. It makes sense, especially in the context of declining television ratings for the CFP national championship game and playoff games in general.
That has to be a large part of the consideration here, right? I mean, the 2017-18 national title game pitting Alabama against Georgia drew 28.