CFP expansion provides support to more than football
As the world of college athletics continues to change, earlier this week, is was reported the American Football Coaches Association moved in favor of several changes to the college football calendar, which included going from two to one open week in the season, selecting an preserved window for the annual Army, Navy game, however allowing postseason games to be played during that period, lower the number of days between games to no lower than six and bringing an end to conference championships.
“Look, college football has to grow,” Mike Griffith of Dawg Nation and AJC.com said on Thursday as he joined 92-9 The Game’s Carl Dukes and Mike Bell and explained why he believes the new changes would be beneficial. “This is what’s needed for the business model to grow,” Griffith continued as he discussed why the proposed changes, which would eventually included expanding the college football playoffs to 24 teams, would provide a positive economic impact for not only college football, but other college sports as well.
“You don’t have to like it and a lot of people are married to tradition and when college football was an amateur sport, we could have new shiny things, but that mold got broken and amateurism is dead now and players are being paid and you have to come up with a model that’s not only going to support college football, but it’s going to enable college football to continue to support the non-revenue sports,” Griffith said.
