indeed. the playoff is being sold as the magical solution to all that is wrong with college football. it isn’t. in fact, I haven’t run into too many people that can tell me what “the problem” really is. when you ask the question, what you usually get is a rant against the BCS. well, wait. the BCS isn’t “a problem”, it’s possibly an ineffective answer to a different problem, but it isn’t, in and of itself, “a problem”.
expecting linear orderliness out of college football is to completely misunderstand the thing in the first place.
College Football is about tradition. And that is being scuttled for the almighty dollar.