re: NCAA Playoffs Look Like A Reality in 2014

It should be the top 4 teams in college football regardless of conference. If we had the top 4 conference champions in this year, it would have been #1 LSU vs. #10 Wisconsin and #3 Oklahoma State vs. #5 Oregon. I'm not in favor of any playoff situation that leaves out the number 2 and 4 teams for no damn reason.

Besides, if it just comes down to conference champions, then that means teams have absolutely no incentive to book OCC match-ups or even really care about them. Why play your starters in big OCC match-ups that have no bearing on your playoff chances? As long as you win your conference, you are set for a playoff.

We've already seen how voters and the computers will terribly overrank programs who play weak schedules like they do with TCU and Boise State in the past, so what's stopping some BCS program that is really getting nowhere fast like a Mississippi State or an Iowa or a Oregon State from jumping from their current conference over to a far easier one where they can go 11-1/12-0 every year and make the playoffs as the 4th seed in the playoffs?