Kirby Smart speaks for SEC fans and coaches everywhere when it comes to the College Football Playoff and strength of schedule

There seems to be a never-ending debate going on when it comes to the College Football Playoff. How many teams should get in? Why are the SEC and Big Ten conferences trying to ruin everything? How much should strength of schedule impact seeding and which conferences get potential auto-bids?

There are so many questions still unanswered when it comes to the future of the College Football Playoff, but Kirby Smart made sure his view on things were clear on Tuesday during his media availability at the SEC Spring Meetings. He may not know exactly where things are going, and the questions on the playoff won't be answered right now, but he wants to make the game better, no matter what.

"Yeah, I think I have a good understanding of where [the College Football Playoff] is and the decisions that have to be made–which I don't think those get answered here [at SEC spring meetings]...I'm not looking at it in self-preservation mode, which happens a lot in college football...You're trying to constantly sustain the game and make the game better and not just do it for what's best for me (or Georgia)."

There's been a lot of finger-pointing when it comes to the SEC, the Big Ten, the commissioners among other important figures, and who should carry the blame for all the change in college football. Many in the media and a rising contingent of college football fans are fed up with too many people at the top serving their own self interests (which is likely why coach Smart brought up the self-preservation talk). Clearly, Kirby Smart wants to make sure that the College Football Playoff–however it looks in the future–fits what is best for the game in its entirety.

However, despite wanting the playoff to be what is "best for the game", Kirby Smart did also hammer home what many in the SEC have already said about the strength of the conference and teams like Ole Miss, South Carolina, and Alabama missing the playoff:

"It blows me away [in other sports] when the SEC can end up with 13 of 16, 14 of 16 [teams in the playoff formats], and they're larger pools–but when you look at what they're able to do and there's no outcry. There's nobody beating the drum saying that it's completely unfair. They do a lot of things based on RPI. A lot of things based on strength of schedule, and they reward teams for that. I have a hard time seeing Ole Miss, Alabama, South Carolina not being [considered] among the best [college football] teams last year. And to me, that's a big part of the SEC."