After this year’s College Football Playoffs, we can look over to Simon Cowell in the judge’s booth to see which teams he gives a thumbs up to play in the title game.
On January 1, we can all look forward to tuning in to the College Football Playoffs to watch Alabama, Michigan, Texas and Washington duke it out on the field. And when the horns sound and sidelines erupt in the expectation of making the National Championship game, we can look over to Simon Cowell in the judge’s booth to see which teams he gives a thumbs up to, determining who moves on to the title game.
As preposterous as that sounds – letting some “talent judge” determine who plays, rather than having what happens on the field determine the outcome – that’s what the college football equivalent of Simon have already done. They’ve reduced the national championship to a pigskin version of America’s Got Talent!
And while Cowell is in truth unlikely to be anywhere near the playoffs, we see no reason the members of the College Football Playoff (CFP) committee cannot admirably fill in for the famous talent judge.
But we jest, of course. Nobody can fill Cowell’s shoes!
Yes, as a longtime Tallahassee resident and Florida State supporter, I have a rooting interest in the olde home team. But I share a multi-mascoted outrage of many that the CFP committee left the Seminoles out of the playoff because, as has been reported, the committee’s members – sitting in their overstuffed Lay-z-boys (likely the “recliner sponsor of the SEC”) – felt that Alabama, Michigan, Texas and Washington were teams they “wouldn’t want to face” more than they wouldn’t want to face Florida State.
