In nearly two decades as a reporter trying to explain why college football had such a convoluted, inefficient and financially-foolish championship system — countless investigations, news stories, columns and even two books — nothing defied reader belief like the power of a Southern California sunset jamming things up.
On Thursday, the sun has set on that sunset — not to mention all the other often petty and political hurdles that kept this sport from staging a real playoff. One day after the Rose Bowl conceded and signed off on playoff expansion,“This is a great day for college football,” said Mark Keenum, president of Mississippi State and the chair of the CFP Board of Directors.
The Rose Bowl wanted no part of modern times. It didn’t want to change its traditional Big Ten-Pac-12 match-up. It didn’t want to be upstaged by a title game. It wanted to forever wallow in 1958. The result was the current college football playoff to work around the Rose, forced to in numerous years stage games on New Year’s Eve, a far less preferable and far less valuable time slot for everyone.
The commissioners quickly ironed out the silly in-fighting that had illogically stalled expansion, yet were still stuck with the Rose Bowl. The contract ran through Jan. 1, 2026, and if the Rose Bowl wasn’t willing to alter it, then early expansion was blocked. Out of patience, the powers that be finally got real and told the Rose Bowl to pound some California sand.
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