Paul Finebaum Rips 'Utterly Ridiculous' College Football Playoff Proposal

ESPN's Paul Finebaum has made it abundantly clear that he's not in favor of expanding the College Football Playoff.

The American Football Coaches Association has already recommended a few changes to the current college football calendar, which includes getting rid of conference championship games and reducing open weeks in seasons. The AFCA board also made it known that it supports the CFP expanding to 16 or 24 teams.

"We'd like to have more access," AFCA executive director Craig Bohl told ESPN. "Whatever that number is, the powers that be should find that. I do know some coaches supported 24. We just didn't discuss that a great deal. But we felt like change is needed."

During an appearance on On3's "Crain & Cone" show, Finebaum fired back at the AFCA board.

"I don't understand how people in the sport of football can endorse a 24-team playoff," Finebaum said, via Awful Announcing. "It’s one thing for college basketball to go to 76, it’s not really changing anything. But this doesn’t make very much sense (in college football). It’s not even a money grab; it’s an access grab that should not happen in the sport of football."

Finebaum wasn't done ranting about the CFP potentially expanding to 24 teams.

"This really comes down to two people, and that’s the (commissioners of the) Big Ten and the SEC, and the problem right now is they can’t get along. Greg Sankey, the commissioner of the SEC, was willing to go to 16 but isn’t willing to go to 24. And you can criticize some of his rationale. The conference championship games are over; I don’t really think that’s a debate any longer. It’s just a matter of unwinding them, because the SEC has a very profitable deal worth about $100 million, and they have contracts."