playoff expansion

College football may be dropping traditions left and right but one will always remain: Bill Hancock being trotted out to endorse a reconfiguration of college football he'd spent years decrying.

“This proposal at its heart was created to provide more participation for more players and more schools,” CFP executive director Bill Hancock said. “In a nutshell, that is the working group’s message: more participation.”

We may not get Texas-Texas A&M or Oklahoma-Nebraska anymore, but we'll always have the greatest rivalry: Hancock now vs Hancock five minutes ago.

Anyway, the reconfiguration in bullet points:

• 12-team field.
• The 6 highest-ranked conference champions get automatic bids.
• The 6 highest-ranked non-champions get at-large bids.
• The top four conference champions get byes.
• The first round is at home sites. Quarters, semis, and the final are at bowl sites.
• There is no re-seeding to avoid rematches or intraconference matchups.

To the takes machine!

[After THE JUMP: maybe talk to Bob Homegames next time]

It's like Speed except I have to keep talking about Nico Collins. I mean:

15% of all throws to Nico Collins this year, including those negated by penalties, have drawn a DPI penalty

— Jarad Evans (@Jarad_Evans) November 4, 2019

So on 47 targets Collins has 22 catches and 7 DPIs for a total of 544 yards, 11.6 yards per target. And that's with two extremely tenuous OPIs wiping out 38 and 45 yard catches. If those hadn't gotten called you're looking at 13.3 YPT. Collins not getting a zillion targets remains the most frustrating WHY U NO of the Harbaugh era.

[After THE JUMP: Harbaugh's playoff, people are just in charge, Taggart]