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Nebraska Cornhuskers coach Matt Rhule just lets his opinion fly when it comes to most aspects of college football.
The same can be said for the College Football Playoff, a highly-debated system that can be tweaked as it continues to evolve.
Rhule appears to be one of those supporters.
"Obviously, when I was at Temple, I would have argued the other way,” Rhule said, per KETV. “Now that I’m in the Big Ten, though. It’s not even the games you win and lose in the Big Ten. It’s the toll it takes on your team to play in the SEC and Big Ten. We play nine conference Big Ten games and travel all across the country. As a result, we only have three teams in."
Rhule said there is an easy fix to the lack of playoff clarity in the Big Ten.
“It’s almost like ‘Why are you going through the gauntlet of playing in the Big Ten and SEC?’ I watch the tape and I’m studying other conferences all the time," Rhule said. "The SEC and the Big Ten, in my opinion, are just harder conferences. I’d like to see more teams from those conferences, opposed to other ones."
Rhule says when you match the teams team-for-team, position-for-position and skill-for-skill that the Big Ten and SEC far outweigh some of the others.
"Expanding [the College Football Playoff] would be really cool. I think some play-in Games would be really cool," Rhule added. "Some teams benefited from not being in a conference championship game, so I think in college football, the one thing we’d like to see is uniformity. We all play the same amount of conference games and here’s how the Conference Championship Game works."
Ultimately, though, Rhule supports whatever Commissioner Tony Petitti wants to do.
"Let’s have automatic qualifiers and have No. 1 play No. 2 and have No. 3 play No. 6. No. 4 play No. 5. Play your way on it.’ You should have to win your way in, and I’d love to see it. It would be such a great step forward," Rhule said.
Whether Rhule's words are heard in the immediate future, though, remains to be seen.
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