The thing is, the more teams you include in a playoff, the harder it gets to separate the teams on the bubble.
You would think there’s a greater difference between the 4 and 5 teams then there would be between the 8 and 9, and 16 and 17 best teams.
Get rid of this selection committee altogether and include conference champs and the 8 highest rated AP teams that are not conference champions. Done.
I agree once you’ve got the top four teams, you’ve got the cream included. If you got to four super conferences with a conference title game, you’ve included the top eight. More than enough.
College football is not college basketball and anything more than an eight team playoff becomes too much of a logistical nightmare to attempt. As it is said, amateurs talk strategy while professionals talk logistics.