Sports At Politics

Jim Harbaugh, the head football coach at the University of Michigan, stated during the Big Ten Conference (B1G) media day before the start of this year's college football season (which begins August 25, although the first games featuring B1G teams is August 30) that he would like the College Football Playoff (CFP) that determines the unofficial national champion in NCAA Division I FBS college football expanded to eight teams, with an expansion to sixteen teams being a long-term goal, as well as eliminating conference championship games: Jim Harbaugh on @CFBPlayoff expansion: "Let's go to 8 and eventually 16." Says to eliminate the conference championship game to get there and keep number of games reasonable. pic.twitter.com/KVsezXrura — Hawkeye Headquarters (@HawkeyeHQ) July 23, 2018 In short, Harbaugh's proposal to reform the College Football Playoff is half-great and half-terrible. I strongly support the idea of expanding the College Football Playoff to ...

Danny White, the athletic director for the University of Central Florida (UCF), claimed a national championship in NCAA Division I FBS gridiron football after the undefeated UCF Knights defeated the Auburn University Tigers by a score of 34 to 27 in a thrilling Peach Bowl contest. I'm going to consider UCF to be unofficial national co-champions with the winner of the College Football Playoff (CFP) final , which is scheduled for January 8 and will feature the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the University of Georgia Bulldogs, as the winner of the Bama vs. Georgia CFP final will invariably have one loss on their record for the season (both Bama and Georgia lost regular season games to Auburn). Remember, the NCAA does not officially award a national championship in Division I FBS football . Instead, the College Football Playoff (CFP) was created in an attempt to avoid controversies over who would be generally recognized as national champion, which plagued the former Bowl C...