re: Playoff Committee Members

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I just think it's silly that when the BCS was created, it was largely due to the sentiment that people shouldn't chose who the champion was. But ever since 2003-04, people have been gradually regaining the influence to the point that we're now back in the same situation as we were prior to the BCS.

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Surely you're not serious. The prior system before the BCS was automatic conference/bowl tie-ins where the top teams rarely played each other. And the "national champion" was decided by silly voter polls, which are horribly flawed.

The BCS was a little better because it at least guaranteed the "top" two teams would actually play. The BCS formula was still too heavily driven by voter polls (2/3, I believe). Computer rankings (1/3 of the BCS formula) are ok in theory, but humans program the computers with the criteria they want.

Expanding to 4 teams and using a committee to decide seems much better to me (although I'd much prefer an 8 team playoff). It's similar to the March Madness selection committee, which generally does a good job and is thorough and takes their job seriously.

Media polls are a joke, and people fill those things out in 5 minutes with very little thought or justification. Coaches' polls are even worse.

At least the committee has some semblance of seriousness of purpose and spends a lot of time analyzing and discussing. I'll take this current process over the BCS, or the prior poll system, any day of the week.