“And 4 teams is not enough. We need to expand the playoff to 8. Bear in mind that the other divisions of college football have 16 team playoffs. 8 is hardly too much considering there are about 130 Division I teams...”.
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On a surface level this seems perfectly logical and appropriate.
But FBS college football teams (previously known as Division I teams) exist and train to punish and wear/grind down the bodies, physicality, and athleticism of the players on the rosters of their fellow league teams. Do you not agree that the bug name teams that play 13, sometimes 14 games in the fall, have crossed a threshold, beyond which they are basically spending the very bodies of their own student-athletes?
No. I don't agree. They play about that many games in high school. They play about 15-16 games in all other divisions of college football. They play 18 games or so in the NFL. Why is bigtime college football the ONLY level of football at which some people want to claim the players just can't take the wear and tear? Clearly, that's just an excuse
Next point. NFL teams have 49 man rosters. Each Division I (yes I use the old terms) program gets 85 scholarships. They have more than enough personnel to accommodate 16 games. If not, then give back the 10 extra scholarships the NCAA took away in the late 80s and let them have 95 scholarships again.