The first college football playoff national championship game hasn’t even been played yet and there is already talk about the expansion from four to eight teams. Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer isn’t a fan of the expansion.
Via CBS Sports:
“You can’t do that,” Meyer said. “Now that I’ve done it and, once again, there better be coaches on these committees. I think we learned a lesson, you know, with all the family travel and there better be student-athlete representation on any conversation, and I’m going to be very outspoken about that if there’s any more conversation about adding games there better be coaches on that and there better be student athletes.”
Meyer also went on to say that due to adding more games to the schedule, the NCAA would need to expand scholarship limits on teams.
“You can’t,” he said. “You better give us 110 scholarships then, because you’re down. I can’t speak for Oregon, I can speak for Ohio State. That when they added — when they had 85 scholarships there were 12 games. Now there’s 15. And the last three they added aren’t against smaller — they’re heavyweight prizefights. You just can’t do it.”
Meyer makes some good points but I find it odd that he’s so resistant towards the college playoff system when his team wouldn’t be playing for a national championship without it. Also if the Big 12 would’ve declared a champion, Ohio State probably would’ve been edged out of the playoffs. Had that happened he’d probably be singing a different tune. I’m all for expanding the playoffs from four to eight teams. It will only make college football more competitive.