Washington State's Mike Leach: 64-team College Football Playoff would be 'great fun'

Washington State coach Mike Leach has long been a proponent of a playoff system to crown college football's national champion.

And after one year of the newly-minted four-team postseason, he already wants to see it expand - by some 60 teams.

"Sixty-four," Leach said of how many teams he'd like to see in the playoff, according to Heather Dinich of ESPN. "Why not?"

For Leach, the issue boils down to the inability of any selection committee to accurately select only four teams.

That issue emerged in the first year of the College Football Playoff. After the 2014 season, many pundits criticized the playoff committee for excluding both Baylor and TCU, the Big 12 co-champions.

With 64 teams, these sorts of annual controversies would permanently cease, according to Leach.

"It’s remarkably easy," Leach explained. "If you’ve got 64, there wouldn’t be a lot of debate. It would be indisputable that it was settled on the field and somebody that wins playoff games accordingly deserves to be champion and there’s no debate.

"It would be great fun to watch - just like it is at all the other levels."

Leach's Cougars finished a disappointing 3-9 in 2014, settling for last place in the Pac-12 Northern Division.