Chris Clary

I did know that.

And the only thing that irritated me the other morning that we were having our normal conversation with Greenberg and Wilbon suddenly shows up.

Hey, has he been thrown out of his house?

Because, I mean, he's living in that get-up studio right now.

Well, they have a lot of support, and the reason they are screaming is right now they are blocked out of the CFP.

The CFP is exclusive to ESPN as long as the number doesn't go above 14.

So they want a piece of the pie, understandably so, but...

there there is so little justification for it and it's not as if the big 10 isn't already doing well they've won the last three national championships yeah but there's this fake argument from not from the big 10 but from the acc and others that you know we're putting such an investment into college sports uh that's their fault by the way uh we want to return and what what

Coaches think is this, that if they get in the playoff now, they'll keep their job.

Do they need to look to McDermott at the bills and the NFL just because making the playoff will not keep you your job?

The scale will change.

And if we have 24, which means you'll have a number of eight and four teams in there that don't belong anywhere other than maybe

the Weedeater Bowl in Shreveport, it's just going to completely overpopulate, which already, I mean, Tony, this last year, I mean, I realize the group of four or five, whatever they're called, you know, get automatic bids in like Tulane and JMU, but they're already bad games the first weekend.

Now we're going to have quadruple that number.

And it just it isn't going to make this sport better.

And my biggest concern, I know I sound like a traditionalist, that the regular season in college football is sacrosanct.

You're going to damage that by possibly having an Ohio State-Michigan game that has very little meaning other than will you host a first round wildcard game, so to speak, or do you get a bye?

Well, the SEC right now wants to go to 16, and what they are claiming is that the SEC championship game is too valuable.

Now, Tony...

Six weeks ago, the SEC said that the SEC championship game was worth $50 million.