What does you liking rivalries have to with the absurd opinion of not wanting a playoff? Either you are a college president, or the only human being on the planet who is satisfied the way things are.
The fascination with finding a single eternal platonic verifiable true champion takes a great deal of mystique out of the rivalries. Imagine a college team who is going to be in the playoffs already sitting its best players for the last game of the season like they do in pros. And imagine if that were a rivalry game.
I think the idea of a playoff already detracts from the rivalries. The Iron Bowl isn’t the Iron Bowl its just another step on the way to some mythical ‘national title’ if one of the two teams is in the hunt.
If USC plays Penn State in the Rose Bowl instead of being a great Rose Bowl match up, for many it is just going to be a BCS also-ran-bowl with people pouting about how one of the two couldashoulda been in the championship game.
It is already happening and at an accelerating pace and it will only be worse if you guys get what you want.
Fine that you are in the majority. I understand your position. Don’t pretend the minority report here has no valid point to make.