College football legend Reggie Bush explains why expanded playoffs 'should’ve always been this way'

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Last year marked the 20th anniversary of something college football legend and Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush wasn’t a fan of: USC and LSU being co-national champions. 

The Tigers were named BCS champions, but the Associated Press chose not to adhere to how the BCS chose its champion and named USC its national title winner. It was a time when rankings, strength of schedule and more were king, forcing teams to basically be perfect if they wanted to sniff a national title. 

As the 2024 college football season is underway, Bush is happy, like so many others, to see a true playoff system with an expanded College Football Playoff to 12 teams. Frankly, it never made sense to him that it took until now to figure it out. 

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"Every other sport has a true playoff system. Even high school football has a true playoff system," Bush told Fox News Digital while discussing his excitement to be a part of Team Modelo, where he’ll be headlining the Full-time Fan Recruiting Contest. "I’ve always felt like why is college football the only sport that doesn’t have a true playoff system? I think it was unfair to the sport because, when we won, we were co-national champs in 2003 with LSU. We wish we could’ve just played LSU that year and played for the No. 1 spot, but we didn’t get that opportunity."

In 2014, the College Football Playoff began, but while it may have been an improvement on the old BCS system, some, like Bush, believed it was still not enough. 

The pressure to be perfect was still there. 

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