College football has spent two years convincing itself that the 12-team playoff was the right call, and the sport\u2019s loudest skeptic thinks the coverage that followed has only made the next bad idea easier to sell.<\/p>\n
Paul Finebaum has been waging a one-man war<\/a> against expanding the College Football Playoff<\/a> to 24 teams since the proposal picked up serious momentum this spring, calling it \u201cutterly ridiculous\u201d and an access grab dressed up as progress, one that would hand postseason berths to 8-4 teams who have no business being there and reduce the most compelling regular season in American sports to a months-long warmup act.<\/p>\n On Thursday\u2019s The Paul Finebaum Show, he turned his attention to what two seasons of the expanded format have already revealed about the people covering it. The 12-team field gave programs that would have been watching from home under the old format a seat at the table, and a corner of the college football media has spent two years treating that seat as the destination rather than the starting point.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of stupid people covering college football,\u201d Finebaum said on his eponymous show<\/a>. \u201cIf you make the playoffs, they\u2019re going to prop you up more. You heard it last year with \u2018Tennessee, made it, Alabama made it.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t matter what happened after they made it. I think it does matter. I think that should be the minimum. You think Kirby Smart in a 24-team playoff is going to be happy if they lose in the first game? Of course not. And neither are the Georgia fans.\u201d<\/p>\n