re: BCS has achieved consensus on 4-team seeded playoff.

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i agree that there does need to be a quantitative element involved in the formula (so we need computer rankings), but the "poll voters" are still a biased sample and often uninformed.

i dont think the selection committee is a bad idea, but i realize i am in the minority with that view.

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I think it will depend on the selection committee's makeup and their ability to withstand heavy external lobbying

The opinion polls are essentially group-think which is heavily influenced by pre-season standing and name recognition. The computer polls are interesting to me but they are also limited by the games that are played. It is really not the fault of the computers if they rank a better team too low or a lesser team too high - there's nothing you can do when they can only analyze the data available.

A good selection committee would probably be superior to either the opinion polls or the computer polls - but a bad selection committee would be just as bad as what runs boxing