Robert Griffin III

Yeah, Colin, I think for me, the college football playoff has to expand.

And it's it's the reasons that no one is like truly addressing.

It's because of where we're at with NIL and other college sports having to be taken away because universities can no longer afford to pay both the athletes and cover all these other sports that are non moneymakers for them.

That's right.

Most of them.

Right.

Most of them.

So I think so far there's been a thousand programs, a thousand plus programs since 2021 when NIL became, you know, a thing or since 2025, should I say, when the the House settlement came came through that those programs have been eliminated.

It's because of the rising costs of college football.

Right.

If your roster costs you 50 million.

to spend that's that's 50 million that you're spending solely on football that's taking away from gymnastics men's women's tennis everything under the sun so what i put out today was my criteria of what if i was the commissioner of college football how would i structure the 2014 playoff to kind of alleviate some of the concerns that fans have the number one concern i've heard is uh we don't want any four lost teams in the college football playoff cool

Make that a stipulation.

If you have four losses, you don't get in.

Yeah.

All right.

Is it the power for and everyone else or is it the FBS?

Because if it's the FBS college football playoff, then I think there should be auto bids for all 10 conference champions as long as they don't have four losses.

Then you do 14 at-large bids for the teams that are ranked the highest, and you don't stipulate the Big Ten gets this many, the SEC gets this many, whatever it is.

To me, that's the best way forward, and we can finish college football before the second week of January, so there's not this confusion of less hype going into the national championship game like there has the past few seasons because you're competing with the NFL.