College Football Playoff Plan

We’ve heard all of the excuses against a college football playoff before, too many extra games, to much academic stress on the student athletes. And of course, those arguments never made any sense because right in our faces the NCAA was operating a football playoff for its lower divisions. Also, the notion that a playoff is an untenable academic strain is made ridiculous when you consider that within these lower football divisions are many of the most challenging academic institutions in the country.

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This blog introduces a playoff solution for the top division of college football that would allow both college football authorities and college football fans to have their football cake and eat it too.

The Patterson Playoff Plan:

1. Gives every major division football school the opportunity to play their way into the playoffs.
2. Preserves the existing bowls system and its revenue.
3. Does not require ANY team to play more than a 13 or 14 game season (including the playoffs and bowls).
4. Enables the top division college football champion to be decided on the field of play.

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