College football regular season will never be devalued under Dabo

With the expansion of the College Football Playoff system on the horizon, many across the country have talked about how the expansion will “devalue the regular season” in the sport.

The question becomes how exactly does the College Football Playoff system aligning itself with every other sport this country “devalue” anything?

The honest answer is that it does not and never will.

The same fans and media screaming that the college football regular season will be devalued are the same ones that proclaimed that the sport was becoming professional when the NCAA ruled that schools could pay athletes the cost of attendance stipends.

In reality, the sport has gotten bigger and more popular.

Clemson football will always value the college football regular season

When you look at the goals of Clemson football under head coach Dabo Swinney, winning a national title isn’t one of them. Instead, he has five goals every season:

• Win the Opener
• Win the Division
• Win the Stats Championship
• Win the Conference
• Win the Bowl Game

Regardless of what is happening in college football or how the college football playoff changes, Coach Swinney’s five goals put emphasis and value on the Tigers’ regular season and that will never change.

For more than a decade, he has preached about the next game is the most important and playing to a standard, which is at the root of all the success that Clemson football has had under his leadership.

We can argue all day long about how there are too many bowl games, too many teams in a playoff and any other nonsensical reasoning people want to use in order to complain, but the fact remains in life that change is the only constant.

While there are always unintended consequences, both positive and negative, more college football will never be a bad thing, especially for the young men that have put in the blood, sweat, and tears needed in order to perform at that level.

Expanding the College Football Playoff system in order to include more teams is the right move and it is something that will legitimize future Clemson football national championships after they beat the best the country has to offer.