So this is exactly what you get when you let the SEC dictate policy for college football. And it's been

going on for way too long, by the way. I'm Pete Mundo. We're Heartland College Sports Weekly, part of

Heartland College Sports.com. You're independent, Big 12, digital media outlet. It is great to be here

with you guys for another week. But I'm just annoyed.

I'm annoyed by this report that I saw from Pete Thammel at Yahoo Sports. And Pete's a, he's a good

reporter. He's got a great name, good reporter, by the way. But his report here talked about how

right now the early favorite is going to be a 12-team college football

playoff over an 18-team college football playoff. Now, this comes in the wake of some

reporting earlier this week that next week, the idea of college football playoff expansion

is going to be put forth in a report to the college

football playoff committee. The management committee is going to look at this thing. And they're going to

look at things like a 16-team model, an 18-team model, a 10-team model, 12, 14, all the way up to 16 teams

in a theoretical college football

playoff expansion. Now, I've thought for a long time, hey, the way to go here is eight.

You have your five automatic bids. You have three at large, and away you go. You want to have

one for a group of five, two at large. Okay, that's fine. That's, that's fine. We can make that work, right?

I don't want to water down a fantastic college football regular season. I just, I don't want to do it.

It's too valuable. It's too great of a regular season. The fact that you can lose a game in

late September and be like, geez, their playoff

chances, their national championship chances may have just gone up in flames is a great

conversation to have. And it's unlike anything and other, on any other sport in this country,

which I love about it. But if you go to 12 teams, that starts to water that down. So I'm not a fan of it.

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