
College Football Coach Drops Bombshell Call for Shocking 40-Team Playoff Shakeup
When it comes to playoff expansions, we tend to think in modest, incremental steps—maybe a few more teams here, a slightly longer postseason there. But Nebraska’s Matt Rhule tosses that cautious approach out the window with a cheeky, if not entirely serious, proposal: why not 40 teams? Sure, it sounds wild, bordering on comical, but scratch beneath the surface and you sense a sharp critique of college football’s tangled scheduling quirks and conference inequalities. Rhule’s vision isn’t just about grabbing more playoff spots; it’s about shaking up the postseason landscape to favor cold-weather grit—the kind that might finally tilt the scales back toward the Big Ten’s home turfs when frost and wind become part of the competition. Is this the future we glimpse through the frosted windows of Memorial Stadium? Or just an absurd pipe dream that makes you wonder how far playoff madness can really go before it collapses under its own weight? Either way, it’s a fascinating, if flukey, angle on the evolving playoff debate—and maybe, just maybe, closer to reality than we think. LEARN MORE.
As the College Football Playoff organizers mull increasing the number of qualifying teams all the way form 12 to 16, one college coach believes that we should go all the way to 40.
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