re: Dan Lebetard: CFP rankings contrived nonsense.

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But honestly the rankings mean jack shite the next two or three weeks. The last two or three are far more important.

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Exactly why of course they manipulated it to hype the LSU Bama game. The rankings don't mean shite right now and they play each other. This whole operation is a money making venture.

All of this obviously has its roots in the old polling systems which always created much debate that would be heightened in years when the AP and UPI polls did not agree. All of this sharply and continually increased interest in college football, by the way.

The BCS system was founded as a way to address discrepancies and arguments that these polls did not always 'get it right' and was somewhat satisfactory, albeit imperfect.

2003 created a melt-down when the BCS poll and the AP poll disagreed. The AP pollsters made a huge stink about how imperfect the BCS system was as it relied too much on subjective variables, such as the AP poll itself. They registered their protest by committing to withdraw their poll from the BCS system because, among other reasons, the AP saw a conflict of interest when reporting on the very same teams that then might receive their votes. However, that did not prevent the AP from promoting its poll that year which had USC as the National Champion, as opposed to the BCS champ LSU (AP: bunch of fricking hack-hypocrites).

Now we have a four team playoff decided by NO ONE KNOWS HOW. Meanwhile, the very same AP spends a lot of time arguing that more teams should be included in the CFP, the CFP committee is too subjective (human beings: duh.), having a free-for-all trying to divine the CFP committee's process, or just plain handicapping what the output of the CFP committee will be.

Fine, sells a lot of media, I guess -which include the likes of Lebetard.

Now, the very same AP poll is put out there as a standard that is used by virtually all media in the preseason and leading up to the first CFP poll. And I don't think it's a stretch to assume it will be promoted in the future to highlight disagreements that the AP with the CFP system - most likely by creating a stir below the top four so that more teams be included in the playoffs.

To all of this I say: The old days were better and the playoffrs will ultimately lessen interrest in college football (get off my lawn! ) and it is what it is.

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8 team playoff. If you are a conference champ in p5 you are in. Committee decides at large teams and seeding

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8 teams would guarantee three undeserved media darlings a playoff bid.

It would be worse than what it is now.