Written by Alex Putterman at Bloguin
With his team destined to land outside the four-team College Football Playoff for the second consecutive year, TCU coach Gary Patterson is, naturally, campaigning for a bigger playoff.
“I’m not going to be a person who’s going to be an advocate of the four after this season,” Patterson said at a press conference Tuesday. “I think you need to take the winner of all five [power conferences] and then you have an at-large or three more and have either a six or an eight [team playoff]. I think we need to take people’s opinions out of this and what you do during a season is what gives you the opportunity to play yourself into it. Then I think it’s a lot easier. Then I think a lot of people would be a lot happier.”
Though the two-loss Horned Frogs’ resume is nowhere close to Playoff-caliber this season (they stand 19th in the latest CFP rankings), Patterson is likely still stinging from last year’s rejection. In 2014, TCU went 11-1 but was left out of the playoff despite ranking third entering the final week of the season.
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