It’s a four team invitational tournament - not a championship playoff

We need to start calling this thing what it is. Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma were decided to be the participants in this years tournament. As long as those teams didn’t do something to get disinvited, they were in.

Oklahoma lost their invite, so it was decided that Notre Dame would get in.

So now that’s what we have. Alabama actually validated their claim by winning the SEC. Clemson...ok, the circumstances of their 3OT loss on the road with a backup qb can be excused, especially when they completely dominate the rematch.

Of course, that showed clearly Notre Dame is on the same level, but....

And then there is Ohio State. Don’t play enough games to qualify for the conference championship....the big ten changes the rules for them. The playoff committee says “hold my beer- that’s why we don’t have any hard and fast rules to begin with.”

College football’s death spiral began on 1-9-12. Every game counts they said....settle it on the field they said....all a joke when they didn’t get the result they wanted. They then used that to justify the four team playoff. Instead of making it better, it just allowed for more manipulation.

So laugh at UCF claiming a National Championship all you want, but laugh just as hard when a team that finished third in its conference wins a four team invitational tournament being named champion.