The new College Football Playoff format has been criticized for multiple reasons — chief among them, perhaps, is the overlap of coaching hires with the postseason.
However, the coaching carousel is not actually that big of a problem. The phantom issue stems from one person: Lane Kiffin.
Since the college football playoff expanded to 12 teams, non-playoff bowl games have become increasingly meaningless as players — and, in this case, coaches who have taken jobs at other programs — opt out. (Of course, some bowl games have cleverly danced their way into prominence. Most college football fans look fondly upon the Pop-Tarts Bowl due to the shenanigans of the ridiculous, yet hilarious, Pop-Tart mascots.