There are plenty of critics of the new college football four-team playoff but Air Force coach Troy Calhoun may have come out with the strongest comments ever about it. Calhoun told the Colorado Springs Gazette that the four-team playoff is “un-American” and wants to see it moved to at least eight teams and hopefully 16 to let smaller conferences to have a chance. [photo: Justin Edmonds/Getty]
Calhoun does have a point with this. There is no way for a team outside of the Power 5 conference to have a chance at the national championship right now. There have been several smaller schools in the last decade that have made life difficult on bigger schools like Boise State and TCU. There has been a lot of talk about the idea of moving it to eight teams but doesn’t appear likely anytime soon.
Calhoun points to sports like baseball and basketball as his examples of small schools winning national championships or getting to the Final Four. It would make it much more exciting to go to eight or 16 teams though just to see what would happen. Calhoun will take his team to Boise State’s blue turf for the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl on Dec. 20 to face Western Michigan.
