Wouldn't an eight team playoff just shift the controversy down a few rankings?

Yes but you'd get more college football games

People lose their minds talking about who got snubbed in a 68 team field in March Madness. There's always bickering.

Yes and it would create more odd scenarios. Like the looser of the Big 10 championship game would get knocked out the top 8, but Michigan and Ohio State would still get in. Two teams that didn't make it to the championship game.

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The bickering and lobbying and controversy will shift from the 4th, 5th, 6th ranked teams to the 8th, 9th and 10th ranked teams.

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Yes. Of course. Look at NCAA men's basketball. You have teams going 20-13 with losing conference records bitching about the "horrible injustices" of being team #69 or #70 and getting left out of March Madness.

The bitching will just work it's way down. Keep four teams in the CFB playoff.

Of course there would still be arguments about who should get in for any type of playoff. Having an 8 team playoff means more games. Also once you get below the 8th best team those teams have much less of a shot of winning it all so it doesn't matter as much if they get left out. Most years there is a couple of elite teams and then another bunch a step below. It makes it less likely for the elite team to win every year too

yeah but the farther you go, the less of a real arguement a team has

If you can't win your conference or be in the top 8 then quite bitching

as is we have 4 spots for 5 major conferences, and drastic inconsistencies among the sized and structures of those conference.

Yes, but it would also eliminate the conference champion conundrum that we've seen. The CFP brought this on themselves when they vaulted Ohio State to #4 in 2014. You're never going to get a traditional, all-encompassing playoff system, but leaving out conference winners over at-large teams from the same conference is an issue in the long run.

You've got to balance the value of the regular season as well, but a guarantee that all P-5 champs get in would keep up the intrigue IMO. P-5 champs, highest ranked non-P-5 champ (assuming they're in the Top 16, or a similar level), and 2 at-large bids.

It would put an end to the conference champions requirement/non-requirement and which conference to leave out

5 conference champs + 3 at large leaves a lot less controversy

A 4 team playoff is a joke. What kind of a shitty tournament only has 4 teams?

College Football has the best regular season in all of sports. Want to ruin it?...then expand the playoff. We're always going to complain about who gets left out but at the end of the day, it will be tough to say that the winner of the two playoff games isn't worthy of the championship.

College Football has 115 teams that have very different schedules. We're never going to have a perfect, flawless way to select a champion. Adding more games dilutes the product and makes a loss much less impactful. Let's not kill the golden goose in this quest for "fairness."