The new playoff system will barely improve over the BCS

Dec 23, 2023, 3:42 PM

Here's my first attempt at being a sports writer at age 42:

So College Football is all pat-themselves-on-the-back for the playoff committee they have put together. Don't they realize it is no different than the BCS or the old Bowl System? At the end of the day, who gets in can come down to an opinion rather than a mathematical calculation based on wins.

So whoopty doo! Now #5 gets left out instead of #3.

Don't they realize they have to push the left-out team as far down the rankings as possible before someone is left to complain?

4 teams leaves out #5
8 teams leaves out #9
16 teams leaves out #17
24 teams leaves out #25
32 teams leaves out #33

So 32 is overkill but probably the right thing to do, 16 would probably be agreable to all conferences and 24 seems like baby bear's bed...just right

Remember, in Football Div 2 there are 24 seeds, Div 3, 32 seeds. Are they tougher than FBS teams? Maybe so, but I digress.

So at 16 or 24 teams, here's what we'd be looking at:

All 10 conferences get an automatic bid for their conference winners. Sorry the independents get to fight for one of the remaining spots.

That leaves 6 or 14 spots to round out the 16 or 24 spots.

Since they love to talk about the 5 "power" conferences, even in the 16 seed scenario all 5 conferences could send their 2nd best and there would still be one spot.

However, the short of it is, as long as there is a human decision on who to put in the last spot of the playoffs, we might as well just go back to the old bowl system rathern than be all honeymoonish over this selection committee.