It's all about the money...
Agreed. Gone is all the tradition that made College Football unique, now it's just a farm system for the NFL.
The playoffs have ruined the bowls, but nothing else. Before that people bitched about the BCS, and before that, about the media picking their favorite teams each year as champ.
People will bitch no matter what if their favorite team doesn’t win.
Try arguing that Penn State shouldn’t have a program because of decades of looking away from its sexual abuse.
The half playoff, half poll system stinks.
Just have an a team playoff consisting of the conference champion only.
What playoff? You mean the ESPN beauty contest?
I used to really enjoy going to afternoon games on an Indian summer Saturday. Not long ago all games were held on Saturdays. Then they slowly spread to other days of the week. Then the daylight afternoon games disappeared in favor of bigger TV audiences at night. Who wants to shiver in the Fall when the sun goes down?
The very few, rare and special college bowl games morphed into 40 nearly useless bowl games.
Then came the crowning blow - the playoffs in lieu of the honest bowl games.
All of this completely ruined college football.