(12-03-2017 07:51 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(12-03-2017 07:10 PM)Kittonhead Wrote:  People are forgetting what the 4 team playoff is really about, to ensure that the best team in college football that year has a chance to compete for a national championships.

Absolutely not. If that were the goal, you'd do a 16 or 32 team tournament, and shorten the regular season if you had to.

No that is the goal of the 4 team playoff.

There were so many years in the past where the #3 team in the estimation of any serious observer was probably the best team in that country yet another team was voted #1 champion by the sportswriters.

There was still a little bit of this problem in the BCS system BUT when you had the #1 vs. #2 teams in the polls/computers playing each other it was hard to argue the winner of that game was not the national champion.

With the 4 team playoff the winner of 2 heavyweight games its all but impossible to argue they don't deserve the national title. The team that deserved it earned it.

The G5 access problem will largely be solved by the P5 expanding to take more value out of the G5. The left over G5 won't have the ability to seriously contend for the playoff like the AAC is presenting.