(01-12-2021 08:28 PM)schmolik Wrote:  

(01-12-2021 08:19 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(01-12-2021 08:04 PM)Otacon Wrote:  Probably because average Joe's like myself don't have much interest if either of these 2 teams win or lose... It's just "muh" now.

I think two things will help.

1) Go to the 5-1-2 eight team playoff format.

2) Drop the FBS total scholarship limit to 70 per school---and 20 per year.

The first makes sure every portion of the country has a rooting interest and insures that the forgotten third of the hard core college football viewing audience (the 65 G5 team fan bases) is engaged in the CFP process.

The second forces the talent to be more dispersed and less concentrated hopefully resulting a more interesting race every year.

The two points were mentioned in this USA Today article on how to break up Alabama's monopoly:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nc...630094002/

Eh, wasn't it just last year, after Alabama didn't even make the playoffs, and after they got crushed by Clemson in the CFP title game the year before, that the sports media was declaring that the Alabama Dynasty was dead? I think it was.

I emphatically do NOT like Alabama, have been rooting against them since the Bear Bryant era, but I have zero problem with their dominance, and the dominance of Clemson and Ohio State. For one thing, dominance has always been a part of college football, for another, these things get sorted out. Saban can't coach forever, just as Osborne and Bear and Hayes and Bowden before him couldn't either.

Heck, this isn't even the greatest stretch of Alabama dominance. That would be 2009 - 2012, when they won 3 national titles in 4 years. They've won "only" (LOL) three in the past 8 years, and in that time Clemson has won two, so the dynasty has been loosening its grip for a while now anyway.