Tournament of champions: Each P5 and G5 champion + 2 At Large
That would be a lot of fun.
It's pretty much what needs to happen. Honestly the more polls that come out like yesterday the more the CFP will slide down the viewership scale. No one likes sameness, people want variety and a shot. Bama could very well actually be the #2 or the best team, but if teams like Cincy this year (or UCF, or other teams prior in the BCS era) don't even get a shot, a seat at the table, then why even play the games? People don't watch the NCAA tourny because they want to see the blue bloods win, they want to see if they'll lose, who is the Cinderella story, who is going to actually pull it all together. Do the top teams often win? Of course, but you can't tell me UMBC's win over UVA wasn't magical, or what the people crave.
The way it's set up right now would be like if you had a track and field 100m dash from 10 different tracks all across the US and just picked 4 fastest guys to be the fastest by looking at their times, but like, only looking at the seconds, and not tenths/hundredths digits, and then saying no no, any of the other guys who ran a 9.XX second race (how can we know!) aren't good enough to be raced against the others, because I saw those 4 guys over there run a 9.XX and they looked really good to me.
The efforts to fix the college football national championship problem (?) of the early 90’s have really mumped up a lot of college football.
Very much. I find it fascinating that ESPN and its reporters have been there all along, helping to push the idea that the college football post season needs to be fixed. And all the while, ESPN continues to make more and more money from each iteration.
In general yes, but I remember plenty of talking heads prior to this playoff on ESPN saying that the season was the playoff, so why even have one. ESPN def stands to gain from it, but I truly think they are starting to realize the playoff has been a giant bust so far, and are trying to bail themselves out of it, while at the same time influencing it to have been this way the whole time. ESPN has had a huge hand in ruining CFB.