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Pat Forde

Pat Forde: CFP, ESPN Reach Handshake Deal for 24-Team Playoff, and Fans Will Pay the Price

The penultimate breaking of the social contract between college sports executives and the paying public is at hand. Congrats, commissioners, presidents, athletic directors and TV bosses. It’s not easy to ruinously devalue something of this quality, but through persistent arrogance, myopia and greed, they’ve done it.

(The ultimate break will be the super league. But that’s a few years down the road.)

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