The Josh Innes Show - The CFP Sucks

Episode Date: December 8, 2025

I love the idea of a College Football Playoff. I hate the process for which we determine who get in. Let's say out some ways to fix this thing. Currently it's a joke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I really despise the college football playoff, and I hate committees. I think we talk about this all the time about humans having biases. That's one of our favorite talking points on this here podcast. It's the same thing with news and everything else. Like humans deliver the news and humans have biases. So there's no such thing as like, what am I looking for here? Unbiased news or fair and balanced news. There was never a time that the news was fair.

And the reason the news was never fair is because people who deliver the news have biases. So you're at the mercy of whatever their bias is, whatever their political lean is, whatever that person's political slant or viewpoint is. So there's never been any sort of unfair news or fair and balanced news because reality is like they're all full shit. They're all delivering the news as they see it, right? And that's the same thing with committees, man. Like everybody's bitching about the biases of the committees and yelling about the SEC and blah, blah, blah. Here's a way to eliminate all that shit. eliminate all that shit by getting rid of committees there is no reason for a group of people to be sitting around in an office together determining who should be in a playoff based on their own opinions and what they consider to be the right criteria for it it's bullshit now let's get into that after these words

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really did anything to get in. That said, let's start with this. argument. The argument we're getting from people is that do you really believe that Tulane and JMU deserve to be in and over Texas and Vanderbilt Notre Dame? No. On paper, they don't. And based on the betting odds, they have zero chance of winning those games. They are going to get smoke. J.M.U. is going to get smoke. Tulane's going to get smoked. And that's going to be all she wrote. You saw what happened when Tulane earlier this season played Ole Miss. They got pistol whipped. It is a waste. It is a waste of people's time to put them in. Now, if you want to throw in Tulane

as a reward for a team to, you know, a number one seat or whatever and give them an easy win. Good. Just in the same way, a number 16 seed plays a number one seed. And outside of once or twice ever, they've never beaten them. And basketball, rock the hell on. Let's go. But if you're only putting 12 teams in a playoff, wasting people's times with Tulane and JMU is a waste of time. And I agree with that.

What needs to happen is we need to create. a universe because I'm not like an SEC honk right like I despise people who have like SEC network people like Paul Feinbaum how does anybody listen to anything Paul Feinbaum says and goes well this is fair well it's not he works basically for the SEC just like all the other shills on the SEC network just like the other shills that work on the Big Ten network that's my biggest issue with news and coverage is everything is now driven by people who are if you want to call special interests but people who have a one focus like their focus is I cover Texas A&M, and I run a fan site for Texas A&M, so I believe that everything that goes

against us is an affront, or I do an LSU podcast, or I do this, I hate it, I despise it. I hate the SEC network, I hate the Big Ten network, I hate all these shills that work for these networks. Like, I would hate myself if I had to get up every morning and go work at the SEC network and shill for the SEC all day. Now, be easy money. Look, maybe I'd love it. Maybe looking back on it, if I had to get up every day and shill for the SEC for a couple

hours to get rich? Maybe I would, okay? Maybe I'm full of shit. But, like, I despise that idea. Like, because you listen, I hate that we go to social media and everything else, or social media and all these other sites. And all we can think to ourselves is, yeah, these people are all full of shit. There's no reality. People don't live in reality. Like, I've been following Tim Brando. Now, Tim Brando's a Louisiana guy. Tim Brando's always been, like, proponent of the little man guy. But he's loving shitting on the SEC right now. And his whole angle is, that they have pure playoff, whatever, and there's a bias towards the SEC. Well, what Tim Brando doesn't tell you is he's no longer employed by CBS who had the SEC,

so he's now blowing whatever Fox has because he does shitty Fresno State football games on Fox at 11 o'clock at night on Saturdays. So everybody's full of shit. That's what I'm trying to convey to you. Everybody is full of shit. And they all have their biases. And then you go back to the idea of a committee. A committee is humans.

Humans, no matter which way you slice it, have biases. That's the problem. Do you need more playoff teams? Maybe. I don't think anybody would complain about that. I mean, look at what you're seeing now. Look at the teams that are just opting out of bowls. They're willing to take a $500,000 hit to not play.

Probably because they'd be losing more if they went to play. That's the other little secret of bowl games. Everybody wants to get bowl eligible. They cost so much money to send the team, put the team. team up in hotels, send the band and shit. Before you know, bowl games are a losing proposition for a lot of these schools, so I don't blame them.

Like, I know that people want to, like, get all pious about shit and say, oh, I can't believe that Notre Dame's not playing in a bowl game. Well, tough shit. Like, are they throwing a fit? Sure. I mean, they are. But they're not in a conference. So if they don't want to play in a bowl game,

who's going to fine them? Now, teams that are in the Big 12, like Iowa State, who decided not to play in a bowl game, they're getting fined $500,000 from the league. Guess what? It probably would have cost him over a million dollars to play in the fucking ball game. So I guess they view it as a victory. But what needs to happen is we need to get to a universe.

We need to get to a world. We need to get to a point where we are not depending upon fucking people with biases to determine who is going to be in. That's why I really don't like the college basketball tournament, although there's 70-something teams that make it. So if you don't make it in a field of 70, then maybe you just weren't meant to fucking make it. Maybe you're just not that good. You can't get in in 75 teams, then you probably suck. But if we're in a world of 12, you better make sure you get 12 really good teams because what's going to happen is you're going to waste everyone's fucking time doing this under

the guise of Cinderella because you think somehow like Tulane is going to pull a 12-5 or a 13-4 upset in the NCAA basketball tournament. You're not going to get that. Football's man's game, bitch. Don't forget the Tulane lined up against Ole Miss earlier this season and got curb stomped. It's going to be a waste of everyone's time. So here's what needs to happen. What needs to happen in football, and this would get my interest back in it, is you need to expand the field.

Now, some would say that's going to water down the regular season. Well, they said a four-team playoff would water down the regular season, and it didn't. They said a 12-team would water down the regular season. It didn't. That's number one. Number two, get rid of conference championship games because one of the arguments I've seen is that, bam, I got smoked in the conference championship game. Well, you know who didn't get smoked in the conference championship game? Vanderbilt or Texas.

Why did they not get smoked in the championship game? Because they weren't in the fucking championship game. You should not be punished because you played in what is essentially a meaningless exhibition game. So get rid of the conference championship game because they are a waste of time and soon no one's going to want to play in them. Because what would have happened is if Bama goes out and gets smoked in that game like they did and they don't make it. And the committee says they didn't get in because of that, then teams will they lose on purpose? Will they turn down the opportunity to play in the conference championship game? Now, I get that that's not the concern of the other leagues, that the SEC would have that issue.

I totally get that. But at that point, like, what's the point of those games? So I say expand the field. I don't know what that number is. But I think in football, if you, there's probably a good number of games you can hit that would reward teams for having good seasons and not water down the regular season. Because everybody said the regular season would be watered down the more teams you add. I don't buy that. Look, I understand like when people look at the NFL or baseball and teams that win a division automatically get in and sometimes they are inferior to other teams that could have gotten in that were the third best team in another division.

And I get where people bitch about that and I get where that gets people all riled up and angry. Totally get it. But at least you know what has to happen for a team to get in. I do not like a world where we have no true idea of what a team has to do to get in. It's just I decided to put that team in. also please for the love of Christ get rid of these stupid weekly college football playoffs updates and seedings and rankings cut the shit also like and I know they'll never do this I am anti media rankings because all that happens is people create this this

like people grow delusional when they see like oh this team beat the number one team in the country blah blah it's the number one team in the country based on fat sports writers and radio hosts, there's no fact. It's like when people get all worked up over like a, what is it, like a power ratings in USA Today. Like people get worked up over power rankings in USA Today as if it's the gospel. It's just the opinion of some asshole in USA Today. And it's the same concept here. Like Jilly will say this all the time. Like, oh, wow, but they beat the number three team. They're number three based on nothing except preseason polls, which gave people a preconceived notion that these teams that maybe weren't all that good were that good.

LSU was like a top five preseason team this year. I lost five fucking games. So I've heard people make the case that, like, well, we need rankings. And rankings are good and it looks good for TV. Like, they're bullshit. But do you want to tell me that these committee people don't get caught up in the idea that, oh, the number set, they've beat four top 10 teams. But are they really top 10 teams?

LSU beat a top 10 Clemson team this year. Both LSU and Clemson were top 10 when the season started. They played each other. guess what they both ended up being shitty who cares about rankings but people look at these rankings and they make it seem like their wins are more important than others because yo you beat a team that's ranked in the top 15 according to media schmocks who cares speaking of lSU while we're on the subject of the college football playoff if lSU's offense was even remotely decent i mean halfway decent i mean if their if their if their offense could move

the ball at all. If they average 26 points a game, which I don't even think they got to 26 points, maybe once this year. They scored fucking 13 points against Western Kentucky. Their offense was dreadful. But if you look at three teams that made the college football playoff, LSU

in those games was within a score in the fourth quarter of those teams, I think. I mean, they lost to Bama by 11. They lost by a field goal late or whatever the final score was. I forgot the final of the Oklahoma game, but it was a one-score game. And they lost by five to Ole Miss. Those are three teams that are allegedly three of the top

12 teams in college football. LSU lost to them by like a combined 15 points or something like that. Like it's stupid. If LSU would have had any offense whatsoever, and they got smoked in the second half by A&M, but whatever. Three, they would have won then 10 games and LSU would be in the college football playoff. Yeah, it doesn't matter. But just to think about, if you want to just think about how bad LSU's offense was, this year, that LSU was like number 115 or something in offense this year. If they were top 50, not only do I think LSU would be in the field, LSU would have

beaten Bama, would have beaten Ole Miss, would have beaten Oklahoma easily, and that they would be in, and I think they'd be the favorite. Because I think LSU's defense with any form of offense could beat an Ohio state, could beat Indiana. They could beat any of those teams. Would they win the whole thing? I don't know. But they would be right there.

Again, that's just a brief aside about them. But I hate the system. That's why, like, I don't like to operate in worlds where it's based on people's opinions. Because then there's no right or wrong answer, and I don't feel like dealing with that. Like, because then people are just going to argue and bitch and bitch and bitch the entire time. And I don't want to hear you fucking bitching. I don't need to hear your opinion on who should get in or how it's a scam or how it's rigged. Like, hey, at least in the NFL, like, hey, you know, a seven and nine team can make the playoffs in the NFL.

You know, we saw it with the Beast Quake game with Seattle, who beat a great Saints team, right? Like, yeah, it sucks, but that's the way it worked out. It sucks that a team that can win seven games can get a home game and a team that won 11 but finished second in their divisions, a wild card. Shit happens. You know it going into it. Do they all play a fair at the same schedule?

No, it is what it is. But at least you fucking know when you go in what you have to do to get in the playoffs. And there's no controversy about who should be in. There is no debate about who should be in. There's no group of old fucking dudes in a hotel conference room somewhere explaining to each other why this team should be in over this team. And maybe they love the drama and the drama keeps us all talking. And I understand that. I'm fully aware of that.

But there you go. So, anywho, that is that. Look, I'm annoyed by the whole situation. I don't like it. I hate committees. I hate all this shit. I'm not here for it. I want no part of it.

So just figure out a better way to make these things. happen. That's all. And I'm sure they will. Add more teams. Do you think people want fewer playoff games? Come on. And you've got this whole gap here. Eliminate your conference championships, championship games. Start playing playoff games earlier. People want more meaningful games. That's what we try to explain with baseball. Baseball is like 95% meaningless baseball. Of course people aren't into it. Like that's the problem. Create more important impactful games. You know, and here's another idea. And I think part of it is they come up with this, I'm sure there's some sort of power ranking algorithm involved with

unbiased computers and shit, which I'm totally fine with. I am 100% fine with that. That is totally cool. However, if you're going to do that, which I'm all for, one of the factors cannot be like polls and shit. Leave the media people out of it. Let the computers dictate that and let the chips fall where they may. And if you put in 24 teams, 30 teams, whatever number of teams you want to put in, you're going to be hard pressed to find teams that don't deserve to be there and figure the shit out.

Create more meaningful games. That's what every league needs to do. The NBA is trying it with this stupid NBA Cup that nobody cares about. You had to bribe the players with more money to play hard in November and December. But you've got to create, like people want more meaningful games and reward teams for playing

tougher out of conference games. Like Texas isn't wrong when Texas says, well, why the fuck would we play any tougher teams? Why would we play Ohio state if it doesn't reward us? If we don't benefit. You have to win those games at some point. You can't lose to fucking nine-loss Florida. Okay, fine. But there's something to be said.

Like, you want meaningful, impactful games in the middle of the season. Like, you do get in college basketball. Not nobody watches the shit. But, like, they do get meaningful out-of-conference matchups. Right here, down the road from us in East Lansing, Michigan over the weekend, Duke played Michigan State. It's like a top-10 matchup. You want those matchups in football. What you don't want is four throwaway games on the weekend.

the schedule because we're rewarding teams for playing shit. So anybody that says this shit ain't broken, it's broken. And there are ways to fix it and make it better. Give us more meaningful games. How do you give us more meaningful games? You expand the playoff field. You get rid of these bowls that, and this is great watching the dominoes fall on the bullshit.

The more teams that opt out of these, the more you realize they're fucking worthless. And the only people making money off of them are the people that are putting on the bowls. Everybody else is wasting their fucking time and there's no benefit. So let's stop wasting time in December with bowl games. and let's start getting teams on the field the next fucking week. They play 13 weeks in a row already. What's one more?

Get them the fuck out there and have them play. Meaningful games. Give me more out-of-conference games that matter. Give me more inter-conference games. Give me more SEC Big Ten matchups. Let them go because let's reward teams for playing tougher games that we want to watch. But of course you can't guarantee that when people are making the decisions. It has to be some sort of system with like an algorithm.

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