President Donald Trump has been showing a lot of interest in college athletics recently. It appears he wants to help fix some things that are wrong with the sport, but his most recent executive order targeted at college football may do more bad than good, especially for the Georgia football program.
On Friday President Trump signed an executive order that will protect the annual Army-Navy game. He ensured that this game will be played on the second Saturday of December every year and that no other college football game will overlap with it.
The Army-Navy game is one of the best games in college football every season, so it deserves to have a spotlight. Unfortunately this executive order blocks the College Football Playoff from making the chsnge every fan wants by beginning the playoff earlier than they have been.
NEW: President Donald Trump has announced an executive order to protect the Army-Navy game window in light of playoff expansion conversations✍️https://t.co/a0ixAgB2zm pic.twitter.com/ZES37imWTQ
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President Trump gets in Georgia’s way of more CFP success
The gap between the conference championship games and the end of the playoff is way too long. Almost two months have to go by before a champion is crowned, and that leads to a lot of team going cold as they wait to finally play their playoff games.
That arguably is why Georgia has lost their playoff games the last two years. Both of their opponents got to play a game just under two weeks before matching up with Georgia, the Bulldogs on the other hand had to sit at home and wait their turn.
Fans wanted the playoff to begin sooner in hopes of eliminating this long break, and the second weekend of December was the most desired time for the first round games. Trump’s executive order however prevents that from ever happening.
With talks ramping up of further expansion this executive order creates serious problems for the sport. The NCAA may have no choice but to start the season sooner to squeeze all these games in, but as it stands today the playoff will continue to take way too long.
As based on Georgia’s 0-2 record in the last two playoffs, that might be the worst case scenario.