College sports took a sledgehammer to itself a couple of years ago, crippling the Big 12 and destroying the Pac-12 because it could, and because there was money to be made. Who could have guessed that would have negative consequences for the one thing it got right, a 12-team College Football Playoff?
Today, the leaders are looking at an inscrutable playoff race and seem to be realizing, Gee, maybe we have some issues here. Maybe deciding the best teams in leagues with 16 to 18 members is hard to do, since so many of them don’t play each other. Maybe it leads to having wildly imbalanced schedules that prop up one team and tear down another. Maybe getting rid of divisions wasn’t such a great idea after all. Maybe a perfectly good 12-team playoff is no longer good enough for a sport gone mad.
