Site icon Side Action

College Football Playoffs Plans Now ‘On Life Support’

BSabitt
According to Dan Patrick, a deal is currently being finalized to expand the College Football Playoffs from four to 12 teams amid the fans' pleas

MIAMI GARDENS, FL - JANUARY 11: Confetti falls onto the field as the Alabama Crimson Tide celebrates defeating the Ohio State Buckeyes at the College Football Playoff National Championship football game on January 11, 2021 at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL. (Photo by Doug Murray/Icon Sportswire)

For a while now, there has been a large public outcry for the College Football Playoffs to expand from its current four team plan.

Back in June, the College Football Playoff Board proposed a new 12-team plan for the playoff. But after deliberations have stalled within the committee, it now looks like that plan is being thwarted.

West Virginia University President Gordon Gee, who’s on the playoff board, opened up about how the expanded playoff is ‘on life support’ dur to the changing dynamic in College Football.

[SideAction-ad-group]

“I am on the College Football Playoff Board of Directors [Managers] and I was a strong advocate for the 12-team playoff,” Gee said, via theDAonline.com. “I am now no longer because I think with this changing environment, we want to keep it very narrow and keep it so there is a lot of opportunity to reconfigure what we’re doing in athletics. … I think it is on life support now. I have one of the votes and I think it nearly needs to be unanimous and I’m not voting for it. I think the Big Ten will not vote for it and the Pac 12 will probably not vote for it either.”

It’s unclear if E. Gordon Gee is actually onto something here, or if he’s just speaking with wishful thinking.

A plethora of other members of the Playoff Board and people in position of power seem to be in agreement that an expanded playoff would be in the best interest of College Football.

As this is a fluid thing, we’ll continue to tack the progress of the expansion of a College Football Playoff. It certainly feels like most college football fans support the prolonged playoff, I’d expect it to happen at some point.

Welcome to the game outside the game! Follow us on our Sideaction Twitter handle, Instagram, and Facebook for the latest on sports and pop culture news across the web!

🔥 Hot from Side Action 🔥