Will a 24-Team College Football Playoff Reduce Blowouts?

So we were talking about the expanding the postseason next year to 24 teams that, you know, Craig was bringing up the fact that the first round matchup, you might get some blowouts and you might, you know, you might. The only kickback I would say to that would be, Craig, that you're not getting, not that I'm putting these teams down, but you're not getting more of New Mexico or, you know, James Madison or App State or Marshall. You're not getting those teams. Those teams are only going to have one. From what I read, just like they only have the top non-power four team, when we go to 24, it's going to be the same thing. You guys are only getting one. Sorry. All the others are just going to be the lesser, we'll say, SEC or Big Ten teams. For example, right now, let's just say that the postseason started today. Who's ranked 20 to 24 that we really probably don't need, right? LSU is 18. Texas is 19. Florida is 20. You do have Boise State at 21. Missouri is 22. And you got SMU at 23. So your point being, you're going to get big-time teams, whether it's the 10-2 or 9-3 Auburns of the world or Florida. You're not going to get the more Cinderella-type teams, which creates more blowouts so i think you'll get some blowouts but not as many as people think gotcha gotcha yeah um you know i'm looking back and so this is this is these are the results from from last season's first round college football playoff so i and i'm and i'm only saying this to to out of remembering and now looking it up to make sure that i was correct so alabama beat Oklahoma 34 to 24 which I I believe Alabama was up very big in that game and Oklahoma came back just to make it 10 Miami Texas Miami Texas A&M was a horrible game that was a big surprise that Miami won but they won 10 to 3 but Scott Ole Miss beat Tulane 41 to 10 and Oregon beat James Madison 51 34 in another game that wasn't close that was the opening round so but I guess my point would be is that I am for any system they choose if they want to go to 80 teams I don't care but I my recollection of it in in sports it's hard to remember everything my recollection of it was the first round of the college football playoff sucked last year so if you're telling me that these teams these weaker teams are not going to be in there and they're not going to be those blocks and good I'm cool with it but if somehow we get 30 point wins and 25 point wins in the first round uh I am going to yearn a little for the crazy bowl madness that we used to have and and and that's not what they want that's not what college football in fact we'll see there will be no more bowls I'm assuming starting next year right there's no there's gonna be no bowls I think I would guess uh yeah I don't know how there could be any but um so so yeah so I I guess that that was my uh remembering maybe that maybe the system that you're mentioning in place will prevent some of these things that I remember from last year but what a drag you know to have two of the games like that and then a third in Oklahoma just getting smashed by Alabama and the best game was a 10-3 game so i'm hopeful that that's not the case next year yeah that's that that's so you remember right they were all four bad games uh you know that 17 point uh uh Boise State game that that was just uh or James Madison game yeah they were down like 40 you know so why do you think that so so i i guess the question is so Scott in your opinion so why do you think that was like if we go back to last year why do you why do you think was it mismatched matches was it the fact that teams got to be at home and that was a big advantage for them because i remember going in the narrative was there's no advantage for the college football playoff because the kids don't have the tickets and they have to buy tickets and they're not even going to be at school they're all going to be home that didn't work out all the home teams won except for A and M so uh i i don't i don't really have the explanation for it i don't know what you think about it yeah i think last year in particular that's you know and generally historically like the top four or five six teams in college football are so much better than everybody else agree this year that's not the case this no so i think that's what happens and i think this year Craig is the perfect like it's amazing how these things play out um because you're going to get some good teams this year that are not going to get into this 12 team playoff and if it was ever a year right that They needed to kind of justify going to 24. You know, when you tell the world Texas is not getting in, Alabama is not getting in, Penn State is not getting in, Notre Dame might not get in if they lose to Miami. Miami might not get in. I mean, you've got Oregon might not get in, right? You've got a lot of big-time college programs that are going to sit there with two or three losses because they have tough schedules in the SEC and not get in. So this is the perfect storm. There's such a balance this year that you can have at Auburn, go to Georgia and win. You can have a Tennessee knock off Alabama. You can have a Kentucky this year. It'd be halfway decent. I think we created with all this NIL money and all these teams having the ability to go get really good players. There's just really so many really good teams that there are in college football.