The usual suspects were announced yesterday for the 4 team "playoff". To me, the so called playoffs have become as big a joke as the Heisman. It's a popularity contest centered around who will get the best rating$$$. However, unless I'm out here on an island, I have a feeling much of America is totally fatigued with these teams.
First off, let's start with the system itself. Broke!!! Well, it's not broken because it was never right in the first place. As I've said in other threads, college football is the most unique entity in all of sports, from high school all the way through the pros. No sport in the world, that I know of is decided completely by the eye test and on popularity. There are roughly 130 teams in D-1 foosballz and at the start of each season, you can go to about 70 of them and say, "I hope you have a great season, but let's be clear about something. You can win every game you play by an average of 30 points a game, and you ain't sniffing of a berth in the playoffs." And the very fact that you have 130 teams competing, only to have a committee say what 4 teams have the right to play for the championship, the only criteria being their opinions, is luda-Kris at best.
How do you decide that Notre Dame is better than A&M? There's no way to compare the schedules they played other than they both have one loss, which was a skull fucking by another playoff team. A&M played an SEC schedule while ND played in the ACC. How does the committee say The Irish have more of a right than the Aggies? Oh that's right, it's Notre Dame. How does Cincinnati go undefeated, win their conference championship Saturday and get jumped in the opinion poll by 2 loss Oklahoma? Oh that's right, because the Bearcats are one of those 70 teams that you can brush aside since they're not a blue blood of college football. How in fickity frickity frack does a team that only played six games make it over any of them? Oh that's right, they ARE one of the blue bloods.
This should have been the year they changed things up, even if only for this season. MLB did. They changed several long standing rules for this year because of how the Ronas had put everything in disarray. This was the perfect opportunity for college football to do the same. But here we are again with 4 teams that quite frankly, I doubt very many people want to see in the playoffs for the fiftieth time in a row. Are they the best four out there? I think an argument could be made for each of them; however, that's just an opinion and championships shouldn't be decided that way.
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