Michigan Football: Expanded playoff would help Wolverines

The Michigan football team is coming off their worst season in nearly a decade, but could an expanded playoff help the Wolverines.

Michigan football fans are currently thinking about a playoff, but not in football. The basketball team is undefeated and playing like one of the best teams in the country. Something that many fans can only dream about right now for the Wolverine football team.

The Wolverines just finished a train wreck of a season 2-4 where they didn’t even play their last three games because of COVID issues. They sat back and watched their rival Ohio State once again make the playoffs and come within a game of winning yet another national championship.

But the Wolverines weren’t the only ones getting tired of seeing Ohio State in the championship. Anyway outside of the Clemson, Alabama, and Buckeye fan base is about over their dominance. Those three have almost always been apart of the College Football Playoff and frankly, it is getting a little old.

The obvious answer to that is to get better. And yes that is true, but still, those three schools look like they aren’t slowing down anytime soon.

There has been clamoring to expand the playoffs to give more teams a shot, but these teams just blew each other out, so why would putting more teams help?

The big question is wouldn’t we just get more blowouts and teams that don’t deserve it get in? While that could be true I don’t think it would be as bad as you might think.

First, let’s take a look at what an expanded field “should” look like and then why in the end it might actually help the Wolverines among other teams.