Mike Leach Goes Off: Expand the College Football Playoff

Mike Leach went on a long rant when asked about the College Football Playoff. The WSU Head Coach believes it should include more teams - just like every other level of college football and the NFL. He gave an exhaustive explanation of how and why it would work, like only Leach can.

[@tagnbama9001]

Oh, I miss Mike Leach so much. He was a must-see every time behind the mic. RIP Mike

[@denisdooley1540]

"Sometimes I just have to swear to get a good taste in my mouth." Awesome quote. WSU's most awesome hire ever.

[@neebs929]

Hero status.

[@brettlanglois8769]

RIP Coach. Your wisdom and legacy will live on in the football world forever.

[@Bnic5]

What national treasure. He is the most interesting coach in college football. Great personality. I would have loved to play for him.

[@lechandler4041]

Agree Lynch is a national treasure, and it is almost a shame he is wasted as a football coach. However, he should refrain from lobbying for the method for picking the "national champion" college football team. His method would compromise the division championships, destroy traditional rivalries and upend the bowl system and all they accomplish at the local level. The present system insures the top four teams meet at the end of the season, and builds interest and passion for the playoffs.

[@adventuresnorthwest3643]

Leach wins wherever he coaches. He creates competitive offenses where it's tough to recruit 5 star athletes. Texas Tech and Washington State. He would do the same if he were in Boise, Fresno or Hawaii.

[@maxdeborde6772]

Mike Leach is funny

[@therooster2526]

True.

[@jonnybaze]

Bnic5 idk I'd probably want a coach who thinks about coaching not dumb expansion.

[@michaelking4578]

It's too logical. Will never work.

[@jonnybaze]

Michael King it's not though.

[@GG-lr3gv]

America in a nutshell

[@ayomiadediji4077]

@@GG-lr3gv literally lol

[@j.d.6086]

my left ear is lonely

[@riotrealm938]

same :(

[@Rapeado1]

I can infact relate

[@kenkloninger2997]

I wouldn't have called this a "long rant" by any means! This was a super intelligent response, and honestly very correct! The playoff really does need to be 16 teams or else you can't call it a playoff. Every level of football does it besides NCAA...

[@jonathanpalmquist4894]

This would be the greatest extended sporting event in America.

[@therooster2526]

College Football would just trounce every other sport.

[@smokyprogg]

The amount of money even a 16 team playoff would pull would absolutely dwarf March Madness.

[@jonnybaze]

smokyprogg well duh. 🏈 > 🏀 in 💰 every time.

[@jonnybaze]

Jonathan Palmquist no it wouldn't.

[@dakotapurvis9253]

@@therooster2526 I'm okay with that

[@jeromes5183]

Mike Leach has been my favorite college football personality for 15 years. May he live for 100 more.

[@KyleHurd]

May he.... But he will not lol

[@thunderslacket7330]

Rip

[@ludwigvonsowell5347]

My right ear loved this.

[@jamestaylor1754]

“We could all be enriched by what they discover.” BRILLIANT!

[@mummeedaddee692]

It's pretty bad when the NFL's playoffs have 5 times more games than the College playoffs and yet there's about 4 times more teams in College

[@maymoneymayfield9065]

Mummee Daddee except when you say NFL players get paid and college football players don’t get paid a dime

[@stillmatic03]

Maymoney Mayfield what does players getting paid have to do with determining a true champion?.. I’ll tell you: the answer is not a damn thing

[@maymoneymayfield9065]

Stillmatic if you want to add more playoff games than you have to subtract some regular season games because it’s already unfair that these players don’t get paid while the organization they play for gets billions of dollars and you want to make them play more games yea ok

[@shawnmiller9386]

They get a free education

[@kylesteinhauser2535]

shawn miller this is not equivalent to getting paid for working.

[@jdberry2725]

Damn, I miss this guy. Eastern WA was never the same after he left. And most say that if Coach were still on the Palouse WSU would be in a new Power 5, or the Pac-12 would not have busted up (perhaps a bit of a overstatement - USC & UCLA were always chasing the big $). Don't know - I just miss an American treasure. RIP Coach.

[@XPhaededX]

I'm a Huskie and I like Mike Leach. Seems like a good guy and coach. /respect

[@therooster2526]

I am a Husky too. Mike Leach is the bomb; though I love Peterson. But Leach is Leach.

[@chrisfrank6625]

Not one but two huskies who know how to text and write. Pretty crazy stuff.

[@AndyParks206]

Chris Frank what? UW is a good school

[@shaddy9121]

Andy Parks whoosh

[@verissimus3008]

8 teams. All power 5 conference champs get automatic bid. Three wildcards. Easy.

[@jeromes5183]

16. 16 sorts it all out forever. All P5 champs, plus 11 committee selections based on performance, record, and SOS. No one could ever complain again because who cares about a team outside the top 15 griping (but the number 9 team might have an argument), those who didn't make it could still do bowl games, and we'd have a four game post-season that would be AWESOME.

[@brentb4667]

Jerome S I agree but there will always be people complaining about their team being just outside the bubble. Happens to teams that should've been 16 seeds in march madness

[@jeromes5183]

@@brentb4667 Yeah but no one cares except like 10 fans. Number 9 we care about.

[@noahdempsey3329]

@@jeromes5183 Nah 16 is too much 8 is perfect because with 16 the regular season is unimportant.

[@jeromes5183]

noah dempsey unimportant...? It makes everyone have something to play for! Even with two losses, win the last game and you might get in! Top teams get #1 seeds. Everyone would be playing there ass off for those last 3-4 spots, and all the top teams would want #1 seeds and conference titles. It’s the only way to go.

[@ethanjung1285]

Came back to this vid today. Favorite coach in college ever.

[@JWReichert]

Man was clearly ahead of his time. I'm watching this after Bama got in ahead of FSU.

[@thepac12andbig10suck]

Here's the facts: A 64 team playoff would be more popular than March Madness and start to surpass the NFL Playoffs in every category. The regular season would mean much more because midmajors wont be eliminated before the season starts, and 1 or 2 losses wont put you out the playoffs. That means added suspense for playoff bids AND seeding, since seeds affect home games

[@andrewhatez7955]

Hard to define this man's brilliance--an original humorist...R.I.P. coach Leach, I will miss you!

[@gunsnmammons]

This man is brilliant. As a TTU alum, all I can say is I’m glad I got to see him work his brilliance in LBK.

[@michaelmerck7576]

All those big twelve titles he won must be taking up a lot of space

[@thepac12andbig10suck]

Im so sorry for Craig James and his princess running him off

[@toucansam19]

If you use bowl games to host playoff sights your viewership and ticket sales would go through the roof. Think about how many more would watch a random mid-December bowl if instead of 2 at large teams you had a 16 vs 1 or a 13 vs 4 match up. Every mid-level bowl would sell out, regardless of whether the 2 teams' fans traveled or not. This should be a no brainer for NCAA football.

[@malachi2saucey620]

you have to take account that they have to have a tv network broadcast the NCAA product . And it would have to be a high level tv broadcastor like NBC or ABC or ESPN all broadcast those games. Those tv networks have to show their own product as well

[@chadmilligan7497]

toucansam19 wrong can’t let garbage teams in.

[@truegamenerd]

Exactly what I've been saying! You also get a bigger variety of teams.

[@trimalbooker7981]

@@chadmilligan7497 they let garbage teams in March Madness what's the difference let the mid majors get a chance I promise you will see upsets

[@chadmilligan7497]

Trimal Booker it wouldn’t be right for a team to run the table in the regular season. Of course that team gets in the playoffs. Then a team that has lost 3 games it should be the best of the best only. Also they would still have to put in most of the teams that lost in sec champ game big ten champ game . After they just lost to more then likely a top 4 team the week before. Which would be just stupid and make no sense. If they want to take out the conference championship games then I could understand it then.

[@williameberhard3855]

This was awesome. We miss him in the big 12. We owe him a lot. He speaks the truth. # the savage like leach

[@662chillin]

RIP Mike Leach He was a P5 coach who called the CFP the sham that it is

[@cliftonsmith4013]

This dude is fucking awesome!!! It feels great to hear a FBS HC talk down about the NCAA. 8 to 16 teams sounds great and the non power 5 schools have a chance.

[@circuit255]

Big Wazzu fan! Love Mike Leach! So sad he had to go to Mississippi State.

[@primeministerofredneckistan]

We are glad he came! So sorry for your loss. He’s a brilliant treasure for sure!!!

[@generalkayoss7347]

12 game regular season with a 16 team playoff. With ALL conference champions receiving a birth, not just the big 5. BCS rankings determine the rest of the contenders and their seeds.

[@Jaems_Scott]

Actually; the plan has always been to expand the payoffs to 8 games. They just wanted to get people use to a tournament format; then use the media to push the Group of 5 conferences out of the picture. Notice how the media harped on Boise State never getting the chance to play for a Championship. They also used Utah when they went undefeated before the Pac-12 expansion. They used TCU before the Big XII expansion. They used Hawaii when they went undefeated [before getting embarrassed by Georgia in the Sugar Bowl] ... They went on & on about how a playoff would give these teams an opportunity that the BCS never gave them. But then espn signed the exclusive rights to the playoff, and haven't given 1 moment of respect to any non Power5 program. All you hear from them now, is, "Well, it's because their schedule doesn't measure up. But if they keep playing well, they'll get a New Year's Six Bowl." Which is exactly what they use to tell us wasn't enough for these schools. It has always been about money, No Doubt. But the playoffs for espn was about getting exclusive rights for the Championship game. --- They used the smaller schools to get people all hopping mad about fairness, then changed the rhetoric once they got what They wanted. Now, they Power5 is just waiting until people get use to the idea of the Group of 5 not being qualified to play in the tournament, due to the lack of Schedule Strength, because the Power5 programs are refusing to play them frequently enough. What they want, is to expand the playoffs without the Group of 5, pushing the smaller conferences into their own division, so that the Money Schools [those who generate the most TV Revenue] will have exclusivity through Auto Bid for being a Power5 Champion with a couple of At Large Bids to fill the bracket. [which would allow Notre Dame and/or a second team from one Power5 Conference or another]

[@jonnybaze]

GeneralKayoss terrible. Why? Why let bad teams in and on top of that eliminate better or much better teams? I'll stick with the 130 team playoff we have. Bcs would be better than committee, especially if you drop human polls from the bcs

[@JDAL1334]

I love it! This guy is hilarious.

[@maxdeborde6772]

Ikr😂

[@ffletch5277]

This guy is the best. Hands down.

[@tebvin776]

This reminds me of the Mike Leach at Texas Tech. loved his date videos

[@24jakecrawford]

Standing ovation!!!!!! Leach for President!

[@ngc5195]

8 team playoff: 1. 5 p5 conference champs get automatic bid 2. Best g5 decided by committee 3. Two at large teams decided by committee 4. Ranking/seeding of those teams decided by committee.

[@hahaclintondix2815]

Protoco why does everyone want auto-bids for conference champs? Northwestern has 4 losses and is in the big ten championship, should they be in the playoff? Obviously not, because they are in no way a top 8 team.

[@ngc5195]

@@hahaclintondix2815 They wouldn't be. They're not going to win Big 10 championship

[@jonnybaze]

Protoco no auto bids ever

[@GarriTrooper]

The last game of the season is in a couple of days (November 24th). The national championship bowl game isn't for a week after New Year's (January 8th). A month-and-a-half is like over 1/3 of the regular season. Plenty of spare time to add 1 or 2 more games to make it an 8 or 16 team playoff. And more importantly, those would be bowl games people would actually watch.

[@robertchop7493]

I do agree that an 16 team playoff would be awesome. Imagine the possibilities. Ohio st vs michigan could happen twice!

[@heathclark318]

This man is a Genius... Truly a treasure to Football. TT screwed the pooch when they ran him out the door...

[@garrettdelre9518]

Such a legend. Rest in peace coach 🙏🏼

[@kirbypuckett2823]

What A Great Human Being👍

[@jimbeaux89]

Mike Leach is by far my favorite coach of all time

[@wyattdavis7196]

That's fine by me, but you'll have to get rid of Conference Championship Games. Wipe those off the board and keep going with a wider spectrum playoff system and I'm all for it!

[@jpesicka999]

We got 12 now, top 4 get a 1st rd bye. Thanks Mike.

[@spacenerd9499]

love watching his press conferences! GO COUGS

[@morecowbell235]

He's one of the few coaches who actually comes out and says it - and it needs to be said repeatedly. The current system isn't a playoff - its BS. It would not be hard to create a real playoff, other divisions do it successfully. Do it! Me personally, I think 16 teams is enough.

[@justinturley7071]

Thank you. In Division 1 College Football there are 10 conferences, let all 10 conference winners in, 5 on one side, 5 on the other, then 6 wild cards, 3 on each side, that way everyone gets a fair chance. Do away from the rankings and go strictly by record. 3 rounds. 8 plays 2, 6 plays 3, 5 plays 4, 2nd round, (for example), 1 plays the lowest remaining seed, bring 3-8, if 2 wins they play the highest remaining seed, 3-7. The 3rd round then has the last 4 remaining seeds to go to the National Championship. Then and only then, we get to the National Championship, 2 of the best of the best play, let's say, and 8th seed wins it all, all on the road, they play, let's say, a 3rd seed, they've had to play 1 home game and 2 road games to get there, and winner gets the National Championship. Also, no bowl games when they change to that format.

[@nmalueg1990]

Minimum 12 teams in the CFP, but I think 16 teams is perfect

[@TheJacobb46]

I respect this man he is awesome someone put a mustache on him stat !!! He is a great coach great points about the college playoff as well I wish they could get it right and give all the teams deserving a chance !

[@jerrysmith3695]

This is fantastic, I’m so sick of the drama and none sense with college football

[@JH-qy8no]

8 team playoffs would be EPIC!

[@jonnybaze]

J H epic fail

[@JoJo-io7sx]

The man is a genius!

[@jonnybaze]

Jo Jo or the opposite

[@michaelstaton2695]

Love this guy.... and he’s onto something . Maybe not 64 teams but definitely into something. “ Heck yeah they’d watch “...

[@nobelpeaceprizeloser3242]

This is a great strategy by Mike Leach, when proposing for a change in anything in life, the best way to go about it is to ‘bite off more than you can chew’. A 64 playoff format would be fun and could work in a utopia, but I think this is just a strategy to make an 8 playoff format seem reasonable, which I am totally for.

[@TheHamsterfist]

At this point it is 100% idiotic that the NCAA hasn't at least figured out a 16 team playoff. I disagree with 64 teams, and personally feel like 32 is the sweet spot, at least as far as real competitive games go. The chances that the 64th best team is upsetting the 1st best team seems pretty unlikely. 32 though? Well, maybe.... I bet we see 8 in the next 5 years.

[@gabedini]

TheHamsterfist I'd love 32, personally I think 5 games is getting up there, but 4 is completely reasonable

[@obi-wankenobi4884]

Wtf is wrong with you guys?! 32 games?! College Football is way different than other sports. You know how many injuries would occur?!

[@prominentsinglesinternatio4168]

I think 16 is a sweet spot and there's no way a conference champion should be left out of any playoff system... You could n Make 6 work if you knew what you were doing you automatically take the 5 power conference champs and throw in one at large to who the rankings have ranked highest who didn't make the playoffs also your 1 and 2 highestbranks could get a bye like the NFL and be rewarded one home game during all this as a perk and have the final Championship game played in an indoor stadium The sweet thing is because you would need to figure out who your 6th team to get in is and who are your top 1 & 2 ranked teams to get a bye and home field advantage This would allow you to keep the rankings in the regular season..which is what brings in t.v. ratings and keeps college football relevant during regular season or else it be like college basketball and nobody would watch anybody play but there home team until the playoffs..Im in favor of 16 or 32 wouldn't go higher there's just not and teams worth watching after rank 32..but personally if I had my choice is do it my way When the Conference Championship Games start that's really when the playoffs would start all too 5 Conference Champions would advance. And you would throw in the highest rank team that didn't with the Conference Championship could be any team even if they didn't play in the Conference Championship game.. To fill in the 6 spot so now you have 6 teams using both Rankings and Conference Champions Then you continue using rankings to determine who are your 1 & 2 seeds and you adopt the NFL approach giving 1 & 2 a bye week with home field advantage..There you go!

[@bradquinn4500]

TheHamsterfist 16 would be good in my opinion.

[@HealthySkepticism777]

@@obi-wankenobi4884 exactly, and why should unranked teams have a chance for the playoff?

[@justingeiser1268]

Gotta love Mike leach

[@marinerhigh2003]

Facts, hes right on. Good job Coach Mike

[@derrickwhittle1854]

I love this guy. He is a genious and I have always liked his mentality. He is an offensive minded guru.

[@keithehredt753]

8 teams is perfect. No more, no less. Or we can continue to watch Alabama, Clemson, Georgia every year.

[@MurKJrps3]

They’ll be there anyway lol

[@JuuiceCaboose]

the_shantilly yeah but at least there’s a possibility of the bottom 4 upsetting someone in the top 4.

[@MurKJrps3]

Matato agreed

[@keithehredt753]

8 team playoff > #8-Notre dame vs #1-alabama > #7-wisconsin vs #2-clemson > #6-auburn vs #3-LSU > #5-oklahoma vs #4-ohio state. I would love 8 teams being a badger fan.

[@jonnybaze]

Keith Ehredt in 5 years 10 different teams made the playoff duh

[@howrogers]

3 cheers for Mike Leach! I wish you were in charge!

[@josephharris2718]

Rest In Peace Coach. Your interviews were always entertaining!

[@theemrroboto]

100% agree. Love this guy.

[@calebbrett92]

An eight team playoff would be a lot of fun. Then the number nine and ten team, and their fans, would complain about expanding to twelve or sixteen team playoff. It’s hard to please people. Also, there would be two possibly three Sec teams in the playoff every year if expanded, which would upset all the Sec haters. Personally, I love watching Alabama compete for a natty every year. If everyone is tired of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Oklahoma and teams of their prestige that are contenders year in and year out then teams need to force them into two losses on the year. That would for sure eliminate them, at least three of them, for sure.

[@johnlee7377]

Caleb Pennington If you’re #9 or #10, you’ve probably lost at least a game or two or scheduled no ranked games, and have no right to complain. A 4 playoff system sucks cause if you’re number 5, you could lose none, or lose 1 really good game, win many difficult ranked games, and be at the mercy of the committee. It leaves too much power in the hands of so called “experts”

[@beastofalbeasts1]

Caleb - The problem with your logic is that there isn't too much opportunity for these teams to get knocked down. With current format top teams are encouraged to stuff their schedule with fluff games so they don't have to risk that out of conference loss. For example: SEC only plays 8 regular season conference games with others at 9. 1/3 of their schedule is mostly fluff teams with some decent games. 16 team playoff opens up the opportunity for a team to knock them down as the competition would be arguably better.

[@methinks1507]

Best Coach in the NCAA.

[@STMARTIN009]

The most entertaining also

[@jonnybaze]

Me Thinks yea he's killing it, all those conference titles and NC's.... oh never mind

[@circuit255]

One idea I had: including the National Championship, there are 39 bowls. Have a 39 game, 40 team tournament. Each round, the bowls become more prestigious.

[@sconnieeee]

Mike leach whether he’s right or wrong on certain things... still convinces me to agree with whatever comes out of his mouth... legendary coach.

[@tomivery8806]

He is different. I will give you that, but I like him. I think he could shake up things in the SEC.

[@Aaron-wq3jz]

Doubt it

[@objectiveobserver2792]

He’s here

[@briansmith8730]

This is awesome! This guy knows how to make college football great again!

[@chadmilligan7497]

Brian Smith college football is great already you must root for a team that doesn’t make the playoffs.

[@jonnybaze]

Brian Smith it's currently great. That would ruin the sport

[@brucejarrell5707]

What a legend!! Rip my brother

[@notoriouseagle1074]

Reason #41,248 why we love Mike Leach.

[@FenderGreg]

we will have it soon, ESPN has destroyed the biggest obstacle, the tradition of the bowl games. I think it was calculated. And the millennials who did not grow up when the ROSE, SUGAR, COTTON AND ORANGE were bigger rewards as conference championship had more value. It had to be done in steps or conferences would not have excepted it. Up til recently, ratings were always increasing, so something must have been right.

[@sam21462]

It's not really those bowls that people stopped caring about it is their conferences. The SEC is the only conference left with any real pride in itself and the rest of the college football world derides us for our chants of "SEC SEC" and our "It just means more" commercials. No one else really cares about their conference championship unless it leads to something bigger.

[@chykomoney1085]

Newflash dipshit we did grow up watching bowls thats why its played out now to a certain extent

[@Wukkie.]

Nail on the head Mr.Leach.

[@talgwatr]

luv it...every yr I lose it n December ...waiting 3 - 4 wks n ANY sport is absolutely nuts!!!

[@shel7135]

Preach it Mike! I've been saying the same thing for years!

[@ryanlarson3710]

1000% agree

[@bradleyfanrecaps6412]

March madness has 64 teams the college World Series has 8 so at least have more than 8

[@user-xb5dw5fl1y]

College baseball has 64 as well. You have the regional games, then the winner moves to the super regionals, and the winner of the super regionals then goes to the college world series. Then the last two teams in the college world series play a best of 3 series.

[@oso9809]

Must be fun to work with this guy. Amazing way of thinking.

[@rustinpeace9303]

Thanks to teams like yours mike, unable to go undefeated, your wish has come true.

[@rickstandard2477]

The pirate is swinging his sword at the NCAA

[@UCFKnight2183]

16 team playoff. 11-12 regular season games. 10 Conference Champs + 6 at large. Keep some bowl games for those who have at least 8 wins instead of 6 for side games. Final 4 still as BCS bowl games. Make it happen NCAA.

[@360sportsmobile8]

UCFKnight2183 this is what i have been saying

[@jonathanpalmquist4894]

The BCS doesn't exist anymore.

[@hahaclintondix2815]

This is dumb, you want all conference champions to get in? The winner in the sun belt, mac and c-usa would get best 9 times out of 10 by average power 5 teams.

[@guy41478]

This is exactly how the NCAA basketball tourney works. The #16 vs #1 seeds are the same way... but the point is every D1 football team in America has a shot at the National Championship. Of course there are going to be some lopsided games.

[@osusilverbullets4423]

@@hahaclintondix2815 it will help everyone in terms of recruiting if the small guys are getting national recognition. Its progressive and may take a few years but the talent gap from top to bottom is shrinking slowly. I would love to see all conferences represented. Im tired of talking about the same 10 or so teams every year. More exposure leads to better recruiting. Better recruiting leads to a better product on the field for smaller teams. And when the little guys knock off tje big guys now we got a better NCAA.

[@Nastyfinger1444]

I love Mike Leach.

[@MrCrazyTart]

Couldn’t agree more. I mean just think of how cool that would be.

[@MattSmith-iq1ld]

I am more in favor of a 8 team playoff. That would probably eliminate most of the controversy. But the one thing that I believe should be mandatory: if you go unbeaten, you're in. Period. I don't care if it's Bowling Green from the MAC. To go unbeaten in college football is such a rare happenstance that I think you must reward teams who do it. My only worry is that a team like Alabama might schedule three non-league cupcakes, but even there I don't feel Nick Saban would do it because at some point he has to prepare his team for the SEC. If we had multiple teams from the smaller leagues going unbeaten every year I would be against this idea. But it just doesn't happen. We're lucky if we see one.

[@Nastyfinger1444]

Bama plays 3 outside cupcakes snd then plays SEC cupcakes.

[@ezmoney79]

Andrew Patrick you're probably the stupidest Bama hater there is BTW who's your team

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

@@Nastyfinger1444 Then they play playoff cupcakes, right?

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

UCF's schedule is almost certainly the reason they're undefeated thus far. You can't reward teams for the luck of the draw, it needs to be based on team and coaching merit.

[@collegebro85]

Justin A they beat Auburn, who beat Bama, last year. Better yet, if going undefeated was nothing to reward, why doesn’t someone like Clemson or Bama go 12-0 every season!?

[@4thandinches]

Now would be the perfect time to expand the number of teams in college football playoffs, with the NFL product going to piss, under the ineptness of Roger Goodell.

[@jonnybaze]

4thandinches yea ruin the fbs like the NFL, that would be great lol

[@jackw3302]

Would love to have seen what Mike would have thought about the FSU situation.

[@smallnappy6607]

Wise words from a wise man #Pac12Nation

[@jonnybaze]

Smallnappy incorrect

[@oscarh.8230]

It should be 12 so we can include UCF and see if they can finally shut up about wanting to play Bama.

[@brian2440]

XxDoom_NinjaxX 1000 That would be great. That’s all the G5 have ever wanted. Since 2008 Utah G5 teams have gone undefeated yet not been given the chance to play for a championship, because of their perceived strength (which considering their 7-3 record in major bowls over P5 is really stupid).

[@6whitefeather]

UCF doesn't want to play Alabama! They know they would lose! They just want to be able to say they want to play Alabama and complain about how unfair it is in order to keep up the hype and make money. Not a bad philosophy when you think about it.

[@brian2440]

6whitefeather “make money” Are you serious? Since 2004 there have been 12 undefeated Group of 5 teams that never played in a championship. Those championship games are worth over $4 million per game. Now that’s just for the college. For the conference payout the Group of 5 is extremely disproportionately paid less compared to every other Power 5 conference. Per BCS appearance each power 5 conference is paid out $22 million with an additional $6 million for every team added to the BCS games. For the G5 $12 million is paid for 52 teams which comes out to $231,000 per program compared to the average $1.8 million paid for P5 teams. That’s the BCS, which G5 teams weren’t even eligible to compete for BCS until 2004 despite having 3 undefeated teams prior. For the CFP Major Bowls games the Cotton, Orange And Rose Bowl payout is $28 million per team- G5 teams can never qualify for these bowls as they are contractual with ONLY Power 5 conferences. Only 1 bowl has a contract for a single G5 team, which pays out $80 million for the whole conference (52 teams) and $4 million for the single team. What on earth are you talking about???? From 2004 to 2014 the G5 should be owed at least $176 million for the 8 undefeated teams with considerable wins that did not receive equal compensation to that of Power 5 teams for their involvement in a championship (This list isn’t including Northern Illinois). From 2014-2017 at the very least the G5 deserves an additional $82 million for UCF’s inclusion in the playoff, but I would also argue the case for 2015 Houston, and an additional $2.2 million for 2016 WMU ($2.2 million is the difference between $28 million spread over 12 teams in a Power 5 compared to the $12 million spread across 52 teams in the Group of 5). That comes out to roughly $260 million owed to the G5.

[@Fiftykingz]

I'd watch every damn game on

[@jonnybaze]

Im A Sad Panda I wouldn't, the regular season aka real playoff would suck

[@thepac12andbig10suck]

@@jonnybaze Regular season isn't a real playoff lol any time a team that can go undefeated and not make the playoff just means the playoffs are trash and the regular season means nothing

[@jonnybaze]

thepac12andbig10suck of course not. The regular season is the playoff. Undefeated means nothing without good wins, it’s the only playoff that makes sense and who you play is a major factor.

[@thepac12andbig10suck]

@@jonnybaze If the regular season was a playoff, then UCF did nothing wrong celebrating a title in 2017. The goal of a playoff is to remain unbeaten in the field, not pass a subjective eye test that varies among people. FBS football has by far the worst playoff in all of sports and the most pointless regular season.

[@jonnybaze]

thepac12andbig10suck fbs by far has the greatest playoff system in all of sports. Of course UCF did nothing wrong. UCF didn’t win a NC however but anyone can claim whatever they like. The point of a playoff is to crown the best team NC. Eye test isn’t a real thing and not included.

[@LittlePia100]

What the Coach is saying is so true. The people that run the program (playoff. System) do not want to change they are Narrow minded and they would lose control. We all know HOW the game is played...Is Called POLITICS.

[@topshelfjedi5704]

This was amazing

[@ahmede.2318]

32 teams? Are you high???

[@STMARTIN009]

16

[@christopjerfoote5747]

All playoffs suck. Did you know if the NCAA used the same percentage as many as 96 teams would be admitted?

[@thepac12andbig10suck]

@@christopjerfoote5747 Where the hell do you get that number?

[@loganorin]

I agree with the 16 team playoff... I refuse to watch another BCS title game until there is at least a 16 team set-up. I’ve been boycotting the BCS for years... I believe the last championship game I watched was when Texas won...

[@averyhage4254]

loganorin The last BCS National Championship game was in 2013, and the BCS was replaced by the College Football Playoff the following year. Do you mean to say you won't watch another College Football Playoff National Championship until they expand to 16 teams?

[@loganorin]

Avery Hage sort of.....but yes ... I won’t watch another college football championship series until at least a 16 team playoff.... I know the BCS is no more, but to me, a plus one system is no different and might as well just still be one game..

[@averyhage4254]

There's a chance it will be expanded to 8 teams within the next 5 years, but I'm not sure I'd count on there being a 16 team playoff anytime soon.

[@loganorin]

Avery Hage my issue is that I feel that every conference should be represented in a post season. If there were only 8 conferences, that would be cool..... if a conference doesn’t deserve a shot to play for a championship bc it has teams in it that aren’t good enough to be national champions, then they shouldn’t be Div 1... if u don’t win your conference...😢

[@averyhage4254]

Ah, that's interesting. I have thought about doing like that as well. So in that case, last year's playoff teams would be Clemson, Penn State, Alabama, Washington, Oklahoma, Temple, West Kentucky, West Michigan, San Diego State, Appalachian State, plus 6 at-large bids, which would be selected by a committee of people.

[@sidewinder517]

I could listen to Mike talk all day.

[@9999Deezy]

Idk why people think that a larger playoff would ruin the regular season lol. Literally every other football league is playing with a larger playoff system and fans still go to the games and enjoy them. You can’t say regular season games are meaningless when only the top 16 teams get in and a 16 rank team could easily upset a number that’s a ranked match and in the regular season depending on the games that week might even get to be apart of College gameday hell #1 Alabama played like #22 Texas A&M this year and what you know it wasn’t a bad game at all. Anyone saying a larger playoff system is trash is too scared their team will choke having to play so many good teams. *COUGH* *COUGH* Alabama

[@sam21462]

Do we really want a world where Northwestern is currently one win away from a college football playoff spot? That's the problem with the conference champions getting an automatic berth. There should be zero chance that a four loss team makes the playoffs, well, unless we live in Leachworld and have 64 teams in.

[@hahaclintondix2815]

Sam M THANKYOU. Auto-bids for conference champs is bs. A couple of years ago a 7-5 Wisconsin team won the big ten, should they be in the tournament? Obviously not, but people have such short attention spans now adays that they don’t think of scenarios like this.

[@chykomoney1085]

Yes i want that world

[@jeromes5183]

Sam M why? I’ll take a 4 loss TAM in the playoffs. They have Athelstan, so who knows what can happen? Football teams evolve over the course of a season.

[@jeromes5183]

David f ok... so some teams evolve, some teams don’t? Some teams go up and down? Dude it’s really simple. 16 teams takes ALL DOUBT out of the championship, makes it MORE EXCITING FOR THE FANS AND PLAYERS of the schools involved, EXTENDS THE SEASON SO WE GET MORE meaningful games, can still preserve the bowl system, make everyone a shitload of money, and maybe, just maybe, give is the occasional Cinderella or magical championship run from a number 6 or number 9. Maybe once in a hundred years you get a 15 making it all the way and everyone’s talking about it. And think of the matchups! Right now it would be Texas vs OSU, OU vs Florida, Georgia vs West Virginia and Norte Dame vs Washington State! Mike Leech’s very own! Lol if that argument isn’t compelling enough for you, I say you are not a college football fan. Anything can happen in one game, ESPECIALLY in college. And the added pressure and meaning of a playoff game? Maaaannnnnn anyone who doesn’t want a 16 team playoff just isn’t seeing it right. Even the number two vs number 16 (Clemson/penn state) would be fun. If I was really really pushed, I’d say the number 1 and 2 teams could have a bi-week and make it 14 teams, but even that to me feels like we’d be missing something.

[@joshparnell7755]

"Do we really want a world where Northwestern is currently one win away from a college football playoff spot?" Why yes, yes we do.

[@silvervalleya-frame7829]

College football used to be a 126 team playoff. Maybe instead of trying expand this current 4 team playoff, Leach should focus on scheduling a non conference power 5 opponent. That’s what this comes down to. People like Leach want to play their FCS schedule and then be handed a participation trophy for going 12-1.

[@pilljr.3331]

Like the SEC.

[@lawless7859]

Exactly. He wanna go against Clemson or Bama and get blown out? He's drunk

[@silvervalleya-frame7829]

Dave Simmons it’s not even a conference issue. USC plays ND, UW played Auburn etc. It’s a WSU thing. I lived in coug country too long. I know the game. They don’t play a power five non-conference school ever. They’re not even that far removed from losing to an FCS school. It’s the same story every year. I’ll root for the cougars out of loyalty to my friends that went there, but this argument is garbage.

[@christopherfoote4643]

It doesn't need to be expanded beyond four. There us such a thing as diminishing returns. All that needs to be done is move the championship after January 1. Include four teams. Post BCS. I say BCS because I preferred that format over CFP. I think if four teams are included that would adequately address selection. In an appropriate manner. Priority obviously to undefeated teams. Possibly fill exclusion of teams with two losses although I might be open to including an Alavana. But assuming they are prohibited (two losses) there would most likely be an Appalachian St. If you understand trying to prioritize teams with exemplary schedules.

[@ISTsports]

somebody please forward this to kirk herbstreit and the gameday crew!

[@craig1480]

Ever notice the ones trying to make playoffs expand to 8 or more are the teams that never can get to top 4 lmao if you make it 8 9 and 10 will complain. If you cut it at 24 25 and 26 will complain and so on

[@lukem5396]

Craig Harris yes but those teams have less reason to complain and its less valid. 9 and 10 have a low chance of winning it compared to 5 and 6 now, and same with 17 and 18. Also a team like Washington St. that loses one game and wins the pac12 deserves to get in, but a 9-4 texas team does not.

[@chykomoney1085]

My team is OSU and i want a 8 or 10 team playoff system. Teams like UCF do need a chance if they do everything than can and go 26-0 and wun bowl games. Its not their fault they dont have money to schedule top 5 power conference games every year

[@lyricfontenot1609]

Actually, your statement is factually incorrect. In other words YOU FULL OF SHITE. Year 1 of so called playoffs saw #3 seed drop to #6 after demolishing their opponent by 52. They were all ready in top 4 but the BIG MONEY Maker ohio state needed a "playoff" spot. So your premise that it's all ways teams that can't make the top 4 was proven BS the very first year of the COLLEGE FOOTBALL INVITATIONAL.

[@chykomoney1085]

@@lyricfontenot1609Exactly thats why its needs to be expanded so it gives more teams chances. And iowa state, they beat unranked Iowa State 59-3 we beat #11 Wisconsin by 59-0, with a 3rd string nobody at the time (and won it all by the way). Its all about the story, last year they could picked osu but went w/baker mayfieid after winning the championship. Stop replying to me with stupidity

[@STMARTIN009]

Craig every other sport in America has an actual playoff.The top 4 d1 college crap is nothing more than a popularity contest. 16 team playoff.It can work

[@braxtontourney6420]

The World Cup is the most watch sporting event in the world.

[@bradquinn4500]

Braxton Tourney And why is that? Because there’s like 32 teams and soon to be like 40 in 2026. This is what CFP needs to learn.

[@EulogyfortheAngels]

@@bradquinn4500 Maybe because it's an international sport? That's basic fucking logic.

[@akapoka8732]

Brad Quinn Or because it's the most popular event for the most popular sport in the history of ever, but your reasoning is still right. If you have more teams in the playoffs more people care!

[@bradquinn4500]

Justin A Yea yea shut up. Even March madness gets more fame than the cfp you dumbass.

[@tonyvalencheck139]

Nobody cares about soccer get out of here

[@philrivera1163]

Get well soon Pirate!!! We need you

[@evanwilliams2903]

He’s such a likable guy, what a character, I love it

[@halo289]

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahaha 64 ?!?!?!?!?!?!? Hahahahaha MAYBE COACH BETTER BOI, MAYBE WIN SOME GAMES BOI.

[@eqvnt6938]

lmao you tell me the last time wsu was ranked before he got there. I ain't trying to be a fanboy but he's better than most coaches. MOST. and wsu is 10 - 1 so, i'm pretty sure he's been winning games as wsu's only loss was because of a missed field goal.

[@lew.mulk3]

Playoff should be 6 teams; 1 & 2 seeds get a bye and all the power 5 conference champions get in

[@drewthompson7540]

Lewis Mulkey terrible idea, teams can win their conference at 9-4 and get in the playoff, no automatic bids

[@thegenerel]

I am not a fan of automatic bids, but 4 loss P5 conference champions are quite uncommon.

[@drewthompson7540]

thegenerel 2012 Wisconsin at 8-5 would make the playoffs with automatic bids, its rare but it needs to be considered that a 11-1 non champ is more deserving than a possibly 9-4 champion, it has and will continue to happen in college football

[@mooseclamps]

easy, p5 champion gets an autobid so long as they are ranked like 12th or better

[@seanthomas8789]

I couldn’t agree more...

[@ericnelson4695]

Coach Leach, I enjoyed watching you get a bowl victory in San Antonio - " The Scene of the Crime" There was a lot of noise about you coming back to Texas Tech. I was for it. Although it would have been a bit weird, I was for it anyway.