The College Football Playoff’s potential and seemingly inevitable further expansion has taken center stage this week as a real push to expand from 12 teams to 24 teams has leaked into the sport’s ecosphere.

Despite the fact that an overwhelming majority of the fanbase does not want it, conference commissioners, a select group of coaches, and television executives seem determined to push it through.

The impact on the regular season and everything that makes this sport great is at stake here, and fans can now count SEC analyst Paul Finebaum as someone who will be on the right side of history.

“The right number is probably four, but we have 12 and we are going to 16 or 24, 24 is the worst possibility I think in the history of this game,” Finebaum argued. “It is going to devalue, dilute and perhaps destroy the greatest football season of them all and that’s the regular season of college football. The big games at the end of the regular season are going to be meaningless, this is not the NFL where you try to position for a wild card or home field, there just simply aren’t enough good teams.”

“Television and all these other forces are driving it, this is about the Big 10 and they’re getting a lot of help, and the SEC is right to say ‘No, we don’t want that.’”

As one of the faces of the SEC for the last several decades, nobody understands the value of the college football regular season more than Finebaum, and he is spot on in arguing the danger a further expanded playoff puts that regular season in.

In this sport, every week is a playoff week, and that looks to be on the verge of changing, something which will do irreparable damage to the best regular season in all of sports.