re: Expanding CFP Won't Increase Parity

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The entire point of college football is to crown a champion in a way that makes sense.

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College football accomplishes this with a format unique and specific to them that emphasizes regular season performance to the greatest degree of any sport in the galaxy and rewards/essentially requires undefeated seasons for consideration. Its really a question of tradeoff and how far one wants this to go without eliminating the utility, intent, and design of the college football model. The more you give 1/2-loss teams mulligans with this tournament format, the less the regular season performance means in terms of basically requiring undefeated seasons, transforming the college football model into a quasi-NFL format. Its these big picture things we have to be mindful of when considering monumental and transformative acts.

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Whole concept of "let's not have a real tournament because that's what makes us different!" is asinine.

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Disagree, it distinguishes college football, its unique to other sports, its what makes Saturdays special, sui generis, and it theoretically does more to discourage losing than a tournament format does, therefore upholding the traditions and greatness of American college football that our forefathers began and TR championed. I agree with its intent and I like every game constituting a one-game playoff, keeps me interested weekend to weekend. Also, people are proposing human solutions to human-created problems, see the issue there? Negative externalities and things of that nature are inevitable to occur, just sayin can't make everybody happy.