The current state of the College Football Playoff is a bit of a mess. And it’s consistently starting a bunch of discussions about the best path forward. Tons of people have tons of opinions on what the best thing to do for the FBS level of football might look like.
Heck, it’s worth pointing to the fact that there are some who believe we should abandon the College Football Playoff concept and just dive back into the bowls and polls for determining national champs because the associated chaos helps make this sport so great and has been part of this sport for decades.
There are others who advocate for the expansion of the current playoff system while others believe just simply going back to the BCS system would be just fine.
What about Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire? What does he have to say on the matter? Well, thankfully, he weighed in a bit on how to improve the schedule during a recent episode of the What’s Next! with Joey McGuire podcast.
Texas Tech head coach Joey McGuire weighs in on the College Football Playoff schedule and how it can be improved
When Robert Giovanetti (McGuire’s co-host on the podcast) asked the head coach of the Red Raiders about the future of the College Football Playoff and if it will ever move in the direction of the model used by the FCS, McGuire mentioned that it might be possible as expansion keeps happening.
“I could see that, you know, I know right now they’re trying to look, do you go to 16? Do you go to 24?” McGuire said. You know, we’re doing this backwards.”
And as for how to move forward?
“Where we’re missing the mark is we've got to fix the calendar first,” Texas Tech’s head coach explained. “Like we should be playing, everybody, this happened in Texas high school football probably 15 years ago. There was a zero week and a week one, shouldn’t be that.”
The scheduling fix that McGuire has in mind? Just move everything up a tad.
“Zero week should be week one and all of college football should be playing,” McGuire continued. “That would mean the Big 12 Championship would be played this weekend, Thanksgiving, and then you would have the playoff start.”
That shift has a drastic impact on the way things play out down the stretch of the schedule.
“And guess what, we’re playing every seven days like every other [level], high school, FCS, Division II, Division III, and the NFL. They actually play a playoff game every seven days instead of where there’s this big gap.”