College Football Playoff that culminated with No. 8 seed Ohio State’s 34-23 victory over No. 7 seed Notre Dame in the CFP National Championship on Jan. 20.

With the inaugural 12-team playoff in the books, people have begun to reflect on and assess how the new playoff format panned out this past season.

Among those who’ve weighed in on the 12-team playoff is David Pollack. The former ESPN analyst and former Georgia/NFL linebacker gave his take on the format during a recent episode of his David Pollack College Football show.

Though Pollack is a fan of the expanded playoff overall, he’s not in favor of the seeding and bye system. Of course, under the new format, the five highest-ranked conference champions by the CFP Committee earned automatic berths, with the top four being guaranteed first-round byes.

“I’m in. More football,” Pollack said of the 12-team playoff. “More teams really truly can get hot. Really cool that you got 8 versus 7 to start it. That’s really fun to see.

“I’m not good with the bye system. That just needs to go away. The best teams need to get rewarded. I am not down with that. So, I’d like to see that changed like tomorrow. … But more football is fantastic. More games that matter. But I would change the seedings.”

Pollack added that he doesn’t believe the regular season was diminished by the expanded CFP, like a lot of people thought it would be.

“There’s so many people that talk about, like, weekly, that would say, ‘This diminishes the regular season, this diminishes the regular season,’ but it didn’t,” Pollack said. “I mean, yes, it definitely changed the jockeying position for sure. But it was really fun to look at those last couple weeks and go, ‘Dude, who’s in?’ … There’s 10 extra teams that are vying for a spot. We’re talking about Alabama, South Carolina, Ole Miss and who should be in, who shouldn’t be in, right there kind of on the bubble, and that means you’ve got three or four more games to pay attention to and see before the championship week.”

All in all, what will Pollack remember most about college football this past season?

“[My answer] would be the parity is great, parity is back,” he said. “Defense is great, more old-school. More competitiveness, more spread out. The landscape is more across the board. The week-to-week was more fun because it was like, ‘Wait a minute, this upset actually could happen,’ and that’s not something we had said before in the past. So, I think that’s definitely something that sticks out to me, is I think it was more fun week-to-week because you really didn’t know what was going to happen and who was going to pull the upsets.”