sports / fix the cfp
Fix the CFP is a static site proposing fixes to the College Football Playoff.
The proposal
On the site, I propose a few fixes:
- Expand to 16 teams with no byes: doubles on-campus playoff games, eliminates rust from extended layoffs
- Eliminate automatic qualifiers: select the top 16 teams, no conference champion guarantees
- Replace the selection committee with the AP poll: 62 independent sportswriters instead of conflicted stakeholders
- Eliminate conference championship games: crown champions by regular season record, reduce injury risk
- Assign bowl locations by proximity to top seeds: reward top seeds with reduced travel
- Move recruiting window after the championship: let teams focus on winning, not roster-building
- Move non-playoff bowls to Week 1: give them a fresh identity as season openers with full rosters
Architecture
The site uses the same pattern as my blog. It is a Go static site generator with HTML templates and CSS fingerprinting hosted on Cloudflare Pages.
However, this site is a single main.go (~200 lines)
with one HTML template. Unlike the blog, it does not need Markdown parsing, an
articles directory, or syntax highlighting. It is just a bracket visualization
using HTML and CSS.