Heading into Championship weekend, if you follow college football you’ve probably heard some of the pundits hoping for chaos. Ultimately what it means in sports is lots of upsets. As far as college football goes, it’s all about teams looking in on the college playoffs (still only four teams) and hoping the undefeated teams (somehow) lose-causing the voters angst when they have to make the important decisions as to who makes the final four.

For those of us that follow college hoops, chaos ensues most every week of the regular season. Heck, Northwestern has beaten #1 ranked Purdue two years in a row. As I’ve posted before, should your team achieve top of the heap status, don’t crow about it too loudly as you’ll be upset by some unranked team before you can say, Slick Watts.

In the real world, only fools or masochists root for chaos. For the better part of a month, the only constant at work has been chaos and it’s been exhausting. Nobody in their right mind wants chaos when they go to a restaurant or bank.

The only time I remember rooting for KAOS was when I watched Get Smart. Siegfried was always a much more sympathetic character than Max-the most aggravating hero on television.

The current college football playoff (CFP) system is set to expand to 12 teams next year. The belief that more games is necessarily better isn’t proven out. I understand that more games means more money, but we’ve seen that doesn’t always benefit the viewer or the individual players.

As I type this, college athletes are making decent money legitimately and are no longer starving. So, let’s stop pretending anyone cares about the “student-athlete” or their physical well-being. For the better part of a decade fans have given players a pass when they opt out of bowl games-citing their future earnings in the NFL as a reason. People pretend to understand and sympathize, but would prefer to see the best players compete for a title of meaningless bowl game. Forget how their absence affects the (betting) lines.

Baseball fans and the media took ML to task this past postseason, because 110% of the world wasn’t happy with the Rangers v. Diamondbacks. All everyone talked about was the TV numbers. Some of us actually could care less how many people are watching if the games are entertaining.

People have suggested tweaking the ML playoffs because the best two teams don’t reach the World Series as often as they’d like. I’ll argue that anytime you expand the playoffs for any sport, the likelihood of that happening is more likely than Lance Lynn giving up a homer. Furthermore, the chance of injury becomes more likely with each additional game. Even though the rules seemingly favor players and reducing injuries, playing more games isn’t player friendly.

What I love most about this weekend, as an outsider, is that alum and fans of programs will be hurt that their “deserving” team got knocked out of the playoff and that they’ll take it personally. People will find the oddest metrics to support their claims, not realizing they employed the inverse in previous years to exclude a rival.

And as good as my memory is, I’ve already forgotten who was omitted from the playoffs for the duration of this system. It’s fun to get worked up about the sins of omission and slights to conferences, but it really doesn’t matter.

So I guess, I’m rooting for Chaos and KAOS. More likely than not, I’ll be tuning into those final three games regardless of the specific battles.

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