Robert Griffin III blasted the idea of automatic bids for the SEC and Big Ten in potential College Football Playoff expansion.
With the latest report from Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger signaling just that, RG3 wants none of it. In the expansion to 14 or 16 teams, the SEC and Big Ten would get four auto-bids a piece while the ACC and Big 12 could get two each, although everything is still up in the air.
Griffin pointed towards the financial implications and stated college football is going in the wrong direction.
“The Soul of College Football is dying because of money,” Griffin wrote. “Allowing the Big 10 and SEC to get 4 automatic bids into another expanded College Football Playoff dilutes the importance of winning. 4 loss non conference champions don’t belong in the CFP. The proposed changes open the door for a Monopoly of the sport. The business of College Football is trying to destroying it.”
Griffin even offered his own change to the current 12-team format, which saw its fair share of positive and negative reaction this season. Just for context, the SEC had three teams this year and the Big Ten had four in the bracket. The other five were a combination of the ACC, Big 12 and Mountain West. Oh yeah, Notre Dame too.
“The change the College Football Playoff needs is for Conference Champs to have a home game in the quarterfinals after the 1st round bye,” Griffin wrote. “Otherwise they are getting blessed with the bye and then screwed with a neutral site game instead having home field advantage.
“Semifinals and Finals can be neutral site, but if we are going to reward conference champs then let’s reward them all the way and give them that home game in the Quarterfinals. Their fans deserve it.”
Executives of 10 FBS leagues and Notre Dame signed a memorandum of understanding handing control over to the two power conferences, per Dellenger. And now they’re going to exercise that control.
“Within the SEC and Big Ten, momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16 teams, assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league — as many as four each for themselves — and finalize a scheduling arrangement together that may fetch millions in additional revenue from TV partners, sources told Yahoo Sports,” Dellenger wrote.
“The playoff format change would clear the way for SEC administrators to, finally, make the long-discussed move to play nine regular-season conference games and would trigger, perhaps, all four power leagues to overhaul their conference championship weekend.”
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