Well, having listened to all the arguments posed here, I'm now prepared to concede that the playoff selection committee is biased - bought and paid for. I think it's time we toss them aside and replace them with a group of unbiased ratings. Let's take the AP Poll, coaches' Poll, Massey, Colley and Sagarin rankings. Throw out each team's highest and lowest rankings, and average the rest. That should take the bias out of the selection process.

To show how well that would have worked, the final four teams would have been, in order from #1 to #4, Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia and Alabama, instead of that holy mess the selection committee came up with.

And the next four teams, who would have missed the playoff under this new system, were, in order, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Auburn and USC. Now, I admit that's pretty much the order the CFP had them. But at least it was arrived at in an unbiased way.

And UCF still would have been #12.

Now that I read this, I begin to wonder if that isn't exactly the methodology the selection committee used to arrive at its ranking. Hmmm.......