Written by Bart Doan at The Comeback
The CFB Playoff committee will get on television one final time this season and act as though the end result of picking this year’s playoff participants was akin to splitting the atom, much like a bad auto mechanic using a bunch of terms he thinks the customer doesn’t understand to drive up the price of work when it’s really code for, “it took me $15 of parts and 10 minutes of work to fix it.”
The reality is, once again, college football does that thing it does every year – figures itself out.
There is no drama on who will be in, only where they’re seeded, and really, that doesn’t matter all that much. You won’t hear a media constantly starved for controversy, trophies for everyone, and socialism in sports point out the obvious after two years of this stuff, which is that four teams is plenty good and we’re where we always wanted to be.
The four teams that will get in are (in the order I’d put them): Clemson, Michigan State, Oklahoma, and Alabama.
Much like last year, only a card-carrying homer for the next in line would suggest anything other than those four. This is how it ideally should be. All the conference champs don’t need to get in every year. Rarely, if ever, will there be five worthy teams to play for the championship and that vetted itself out this year.
College football always does this, and to be honest, mostly did it during the BCS era, too. There were outlier years that happened too often with only two teams, which is how we got to the place we’re in now.
There are no outliers here. Stanford, the lone conference champ left out this year, lost twice, including a game out of conference to Northwestern. In the end, that was a playoff game way back in September, we just didn’t know it yet.
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