About 12 million people watched Saturday’s Georgia-Alabama thriller, a reminder that college football continues to grow its already extreme popularity. And, no, the addition of a 12-team playoff wasn’t going to ruin the regular season.
Or even turn a Dawgs-Tide game into Jacksonville at Carolina.
In fact, the stakes for this game were no different than for a four-team playoff, or even the old BCS. Neither team was going to be eliminated from the national championship chase due to a September loss — back in 2011, LSU beat Alabama in a November game only to see the Crimson Tide again, and lose this time, in the BCS title game.