It's not a matter of if — rather when — college football moves forward with an expanded postseason system. Coaches are strongly in favor of revamping the current four-team Playoff format to increase the number of teams included and perhaps create a better representation of title contenders from across several Power 5 and Group of 5 conferences.
Alabama coach Nick Saban appeared this week on the Rich Eisen Show and touched on various topics, including college football's primary issue with the current Playoff system.
“Way back when we decided to have two teams, pick the best two teams and let the play in a championship game, and everybody wanted to expand to four teams, it was my comment then that if we expand to four teams and have a playoff, everything is going to be about the playoff,” Saban said Friday. “All the media interest, everything is going to be about the Playoff. The shows they do all year, the shows like who gets into the NCAA Basketball Tournament, that’s what it’s going to be.
"All the other bowl games and teams that had good seasons, but didn’t quite get there, the interest in what they do in the offseason is going to be diminished. And that is exactly what’s happened.”
Parity is not commonplace in the four-team playoff format. Twenty-two of the 28 bids in the first seven years of the playoff have been rewarded to the same five schools: Alabama (6), Clemson (6), Oklahoma (4), Ohio State (4) and Notre Dame (2).
Only four teams have won the national championship during that stretch, with Alabama (3) and Clemson (2) combining for five titles in those seven seasons. A school from a Group of 5 conference has never been invited to the playoff.
Saban says the importance of bowl season as a reward has diminished due to the focus on four teams in the Playoff.
“So I just wonder sometimes if having a Playoff and bowl games, and that was the unique thing about bowl games in college football, a lot of players got self gratification for having good seasons,” Saban said. “They got to go to a bowl game, their families, the program, everything sort of got some positive self gratification of what they were able to accomplish even though they weren’t national championship caliber or Playoff caliber.
"Now that’s all been diminished a little bit. You just wonder to yourself, can Playoff and bowl games co-exist, or should we just have more teams in the Playoff? I’m not saying I’m for it or against it. I think that’s the question people need to answer.”
247Sports national analyst Brandon Marcello contributed to this story.
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