Every Saturday around the United States people turn on their TVs and find a hard way not to see some sort of college football related sports programming. College Football is huge in the existence of American sports and what people dedicate their TV viewing to. With stadiums around the country crammed to the max with screaming fans and dedicated family's, college football rules as one of the premier sports in America today. But Michael Weinrebs article "The End of College Football As We Know It?" talks about the ending of a given era in the college football realm. With the potential National Championship drawing out to be Alabama and Notre Dame, it seems that this will be the last time we will have a strictly drawn championship game that isn't decided on anything more than who you beat and who you might have struck a loss to. Next year is being seen as the first time in sports history that a 4 team playoff system will be enforced and a National Championship won't just simply be 2 teams that the fans love and is politically the most justifiable team. But what will really change? It doesn't matter how many teams you put into a playoff bound spot, it will still be teams that politically are the teams deserving to be playing in those games. It won't matter who won the most decisive games or who has the best record, all it will come down to is TV ratings and what SEC teams should be given the right to play for their 50th straight national title. The SEC is the best conference yes, but a loss on your schedule is a loss no matter what way you cut it. And if an unbeaten team is chosen over a team that has a unblemished record, then in my mind that is a load of bs. So yes, college football is headed in a new direction. But how big of a difference are we really going to see? I won't hold my breath for the same garbage they pull every year.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8680817/notre-dame-alabama-sec-history-college-football-national-championship-game
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