Joel Klatt has had enough of the control the SEC and Big Ten are trying to impose on an expanded College Football Playoff format.
Klatt discussed the possibilities during a recent edition of his podcast, "The Joel Klatt Show", as he attempted to explain the magnitude of the Big 12 and ACC being treated unfairly with at-large bids.
"They don’t feel like they should be giving extra spots to the ACC and the Big 12,” Klatt said. "They don’t feel like those leagues are tough enough. Quite frankly, I agree. They’re not deep enough to get the third automatic spot. So they would rather those two conferences have two automatic spots, which would free up those two more at-large berths at the end."
Klatt said a better idea would be to just expand to 14 teams and see who the best team is at the end of the tournament without the added, or unnecessary, fluff.
“OK, so what do those three at-large berths actually represent?… It’s a safety net, and it’s unneeded, it’s unwarranted, and it’s greedy. I do not like the 16-team model for this reason: it is not needed. We do not need to be redundant.”
Klatt previously stated 14 teams makes the most sense, as it would differentiate college football from March Madness, for example.
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"As soon as we go to 16 (teams), now the games late in the season don’t really matter. Now we get what a college basketball regular season is, which is, let’s face it, unimportant until we get to March Madness," Klatt told Sports Business Journal. "And I want to try to avoid that in college football because one of the things that’s been unique to college football is the importance of the regular season.”
Simply put, every team with a chance at title contention, in Klatt's view, should be given a chance.
The two college football heavyweight giants continue to remain in the spotlight, with the Big Ten possibly clinging to a three-peat championship this year.
For now, only time will tell.