Mini playoff picked by committee = excuse to exclude a #4 SEC team (with one ranked in the top 2) to include Notre Dame, B1G, or ACC markets. Mark my words, a #4 will get passed over very early based on politics and market share.
I agree with this, and the BCS was great for LSU. The older system of picking national champions and never trying to pair #1 with #2 was ridiculous.
Maybe. We'll see. The computer aspect of the BCS brought a lot of unbiased data into the decision. This new system is prime for corruption and you'll see traditional powers and teams from large markets put in over lesser known teams with more deserving schedules. The BCS has been a whipping boy. A lot of college football fans don't remember what a corrupt cluster fuck it was before the BCS came along.
This is very true. Before the BCS, the top 2 teams were very rarely getting to face one another for all the marbles. However, what many people soon realized is that a lot of your traditional powers & media darlings don't get the invites when you take the subjectivity out of it. The SEC never got to play in the Rose, Orange, or Fiesta Bowls. It was Sugar Bowl or bust, and if the #2 team didn't get paired up with conference tie-ins, tough shit. But when you made the rankings somewhat subjective, it became clear to the rest of the country that the SEC would rule the landscape for the foreseeable future, and everyone else in the country hated that. I think they'd rather the controversy than the SEC dominance.
The 4 team play off will include the SEC Champ, Big 10 Champ, PAC 12 Champ and Notre Dame/ACC Champ/ Big 12 Champ 9 out of 10 years. The #2 SEC team will be more deserving of a spot in 8 of those ten years.
