For a game that says ‘we can’t’ or ‘it’s too complicated’ every time great concepts are presented, school football has in fact uncovered tactics to be agile for more than six months. If you can figure out how to play in the middle of a pandemic while getting rid of almost every single popular and literally schedules the games of the week, it would possibly be a sign that school football might think a little more than its leaders are usually willing to allow.
So it was confusing and a little daunting when Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott said Thursday that there was no “serious momentum or discussion” about the expansion of school football playoffs this season, the peak of the rare seasons.
Note that pac-12 announced on August 11 that it would not play football this fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reached an agreement with Quidel just 23 days later to provide test rapids, and then announced 3 weeks after him that he would play a seven-game season, a few days after forcing state governors to lift restrictions on meetings.
If you can do all this in just a few weeks, you can figure out how to upload 4 more groups to a series of playoffs. All the old excuses for which school football simply can’t do paintings: the educational calendar, the logistics of moving. Groups at the last minute to play on campus sites, the additional devaluation of the bowling formula, can no longer be repeated through other people who must be taken seriously.
For God’s sake, the NCAA has literally lifted all restrictions on qualifying groups for this year’s playoffs. We may have bowling groups that win two or three games just because they’re available. Let’s not pretend that any of this game is broadcast on stone boards on Mount Sinai.
But even in cases that have appealed to all the creativity and positive attitude that school football leaders can bring together, are they going to line up for more than 4 groups to enter the playoffs?In a way, you have to appreciate your commitment to the bit.
If we’re going to stop by to play football this season, we could also move on to the end.
In a year in which there will be no genuine path for the 4 most sensible groups due to the limited number of games outside the convention and the groups will bet an odd number of games, making sure that all the champions of the forced convention automatically participate in the playoffs. In a year in which groups will suffer all kinds of adversity, from postponed or cancelled games to endless tensions in the positive tests and fitness they have enjoyed, which will allow more participants to participate in the largest exhibition of school football. would be a compliment to everyone’s efforts. This season’s release.
But as Scott made clear from his comments wednesday, any discussion of expansion will occur in the smart times of school football.
And you know who it’s bad for? The Pac-12.
In the six-year history of the PSC, the Pac-12 has won only two of the 24 imaginable offerings, while the SEC has had seven, CCA six and 4 each for big ten and Big 12.
While Scott’s handling of the convention and his almost invisible television network paintings is in fact a fair game for critics, the lack of effect on the playoffs is not his fault. more vital than any commissioner.
But one thing you can do as one of the six most influential people making decisions for school football is to scream from the mountains that the Playoffs expand and that your league champion has an automatic place.
Scott doesn’t do this at the moment. And that will almost result in the Pac-12 being eliminated from the playoffs for the fourth year in a row.
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Look, nobody had a smart hand to play here. Like the Big Ten, pac-12’s reasons for first postponing football were well-intentioned and were based on knowledge of the virus and lack of evidence at the time. about local regulations that prevented the kind of internships and education that groups from other leagues had been doing for months.
But betting on a seven-game season at the convention, starting November 6, will put pac-12 at a disadvantage in terms of the playoffs. How do you compare to an undefeated Pac-12 champion betting 8 games in total (including the convention?championship) with an SEC team that has played 11 times or an ACC team betting 12 games?
That’s impossible, which is one more explanation for why abandon the existing playoff format and expand it to 8 groups now, and forever. If that’s what we’re headed for, why not just break the bandage and give everyone who’s figured out a way to play this crazy season a valid chance of winning a national championship?
Of course, it wouldn’t be easy to organize an eight-team playoff on the fly, but given the disorders that school football has already had to fix in the last six months, this turns out to be an overlap.