The funny thing about your excuse. A few weeks ago, everyone was in a tizzy, because 4 teams were undefeated. Egad!. But guess what, 3 of those teams lost, and only one remains undefeated. So, tell me again, why are you in such a tizzy, because your fears didn't pan out?
Now we can have playoffs with predermined sportswriters' favorites, and we can have playoff with a bunch of boring blowout games. Yeah! We threw 100 years of tradition in the trash. It's like the Obama of football. And you are on the Obama side.
Oh contraire. I want the sportswriters and the computers thrown out of the process entirely. See:
You have four major superconferences. As each will have 12 or more members, they will all have conference championship games to decide their champion. The four champions of the four conferences can then play a playoff amongst the final four.
You can call it boring but the money will be huge and the prestige higher this way than the current polarizing political method.
Imagine if Alabama and Georgia met for the SEC title, Kansas St. and Florida State met for the Big XII title, UCLA and Stanford played in the Pac-14 title game and Nebraska met Wisconsin for the Big 10 title* (without Ohio St.which would replace Ohio St. except it is on probation).
Then the winner of those four games seed the Final Four to determine the National Championship. In this continued “what if” scenario, Alabama plays Kansas St. and Stanford plays Nebraska for the berths in the title game.
The beauty is the winners are determined on the field, not with a slide rule or with an idiot poll.