Written by Brendan Prunty at The Comeback
If you were one of the few (OK, many) College Football Playoff fans rooting for chaos on Saturday, sorry, you didn’t get your wish. There will be no surprise entrant this year. No Ohio State getting in the back door for the second year in a row. No Notre Dame sneaking via a mathematical formula. No Iowa getting in and throwing things off-kilter.
None of that.
We pretty much got chalk. Chalky, chalky, chalk.
And you know what? Good. Because it gives us something that we should’ve gotten last year: A chance at Alabama in the final.
Saw what you want — we’re rooting for Alabama, we hate Michigan State, the Big Ten etc. — but there is little denying that getting a chance to get the Crimson Tide into the National Championship game opposite either Oklahoma, or a potentially undefeated Clemson team, is the game that we all are going to watch. They are the Yankees in the World Series, the Lakers in the NBA finals, the Patriots in the Super Bowl, Duke in the Final Four. You’re going to tune in whether you root for or against them.
You’ll have a stake in the game.
Alabama basically jacks the ratings up just by taking the field. Don’t believe us? The SEC Championship victory over Florida — that was an otherwise ho-hum game — on CBS on a Saturday afternoon was the highest-rated college game of the season, doing an average rating of 8.3 and a 17 share.
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