Opinion: It’s Not Us, It’s You.
Is it time for a split from college football elites?
The past three weeks have been full of disdain for James Madison and Tulane making their way into the college football playoffs.
How dare they crash our party.
It all started with Notre Dame’s exclusion and subsequent childish tantrum by opting out of a bowl game. After that dust settled, the college football media machine kicked it into overdrive being flabbergasted that two Group of Five teams would encroach on what the elite teams think is “their” playoff- with one prominent media member to “joke” that it was a safety issue for the G5 to be included.
The Fallout
After Tulane and James Madison got demolished yesterday, it’s been a nonstop cascade of I told you so.
Here’s the truth: JMU & Tulane earned their way in under the current system. A system that is admittedly flawed. A system that was built to provide access over excellence.
Remarkably, there is a change coming to next season’s playoff that was allegedly signed off on in 2024.
There is absolutely no way that’s true.With the bevy of excellent college football reporters, there is a zero percent chance that everyone sat on this for over a year. This was clearly concocted sometime between selection Sunday and the day of the report as a way of tweaking the play off.
Where Do We Go From Here?
All of that to say to the 32-48 teams that consider themselves to be elite:
Go. We’re tired of it.
Go form your Super Friends of College Football league and play one another and collect all of the money. It’s time for the scraps to rebuild college football.
We’re exhausted from the constant barrage that somehow those of us that aren’t elite are creating some sort of roadblock to your domination and success.
We know you don’t care and frankly we don’t care either. I think a change of scenery will do everyone from football programs to television networks some good.
We just want to watch and cover games. Whether that be a random Tuesday in Miami, OH or a Saturday at SBLS.
By advocating for the elites to breakaway and the rest of CFB to rebuild, I am in no way advocating for removal of NIL and free transfer rules. Those should be here to stay, but that’s for another column.
That’s a column that we are too tired to write.
