re: New 4 Team Playoff to have 14-20 Person Selection Committee

I really don't mind the idea of a committee. But the qualification for that would be they spell out the criteria for their decision making - and the criteria are designed to result in a legitimate national champion AND preserve or raise the value of college football as a whole.

For example, it makes sense to me for them to value winning your conference, but not every conference champ needs to be included (e.g. an 8-5 Wisconsin team should not be eligible for a NC when they lost a lot of games IMO) because sometimes that makes a lot of the games they played and lost less meaningful.

It would also make sense to me for the committee to consider including or include a highly regarded team that does not win its own conference. But including them should not come at the expense of a team that played a similar quality schedule and did win their conference. I think there should also be some "burden of proof" placed on those "runner-up" teams. Not only should they be very highly ranked but they should have played an outstanding out of conference opponent.

On the whole I think these kinds of criteria would be great for college football. They would value the regular season and provide incentives for outstanding teams to win their conference and play outstanding games out of conference - and those things are both more fair and more likely to maintain a nationally relevant sport than either just taking the top four conference champs or just taking the top four teams in a BCS poll.