re: ESPN's projections for playoffs and Winners

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It's not perfect, but it's a helluva lot better than the previous systems. First it was sportswriters who just subjectively picked who they thought was the best team. Things got better with the BCS. At least we had a championship game. Still, the selection of the two participants was primarily subjective.

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completely agree. The BCS ratings were 2/3 affected by the polls, which are an abomination. Having a committee (although still human) is much better than polls.

College football isn't the NFL (32 teams vs. 128). Too many weak conferences, and schedules are completely different. The NFL equalizes schedules each year based on prior year results.

Once the playoff expands to 8, we can then automatically take the conference champions in the big 5 conferences and then add 3 at large teams. This takes some of the subjectivity out of the equation.

But for now, I'll take the committee over the prior BCS formula every day of the week.