We went from having the best regular season in sports with a pretty enjoyable postseason

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To having basically 4 teams realistically play over and over again.

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Is that college football’s fault?

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This system gets suckier and more repetitive it feels like every year.

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It’s been that way before the playoff

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Is that college football’s fault?

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Ohio State being in and Oklahoma being 6th shows that the committee makes their decisions based on “reputation” and past success. The committee was putting OSU in before the season started no matter what.

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If we never went to the 4 team, nothing would change. It would still be dominated by Bama/Ohio St/Clemson with other teams getting in here and there...how's it any different?

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This
Go back to the years of the BCS
It’s the same teams

Not much parity in the sport. i don’t give a frick, i still watch the shite out of it, but the same teams always end up playing for the title

They need to make it 6 to 8 teams. Conference Champs from power 5 conferences and fill the other spots with at large teams. People have been saying that for a while.

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Go back to the years of the BCS
It’s the same teams

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Clemson never played for a BCS title.

Alabama played for 2.

Ohio St for 3.

Florida for 2.

Florida St for 3.

You also had Tennessee, Oregon, USC, Miami, Auburn, Nebraska, Virginia Tech and Texas.

Yeah it’s mostly blue bloods and dynasties go on runs for a few years. But the CFB playoff dominance of Alabama and Clemson plus Oklahoma and Ohio St getting obvious “blue blood” favoritism is unprecedented.

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The system cultivates a league that is without parity.

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How does a 4 team playoff mean less parity than 2 team playoff/championship?

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Not this bad.

Clemson has been in 6 of the last 7 years.

Alabama the same.

Ohio State 4 of the last 7.

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And if we just had a top 2, those same 3 teams would have the most visits in the past decade as well, what's different?

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Do we have any other 7 year stretch in CFB history where the exact same teams finished in the top 4 almost every year?

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Even if so, that has nothing to do with a 4 team playoff. Even if it were 2 teams, those same teams would still dominate the top 4.

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How does a 4 team playoff mean less parity than 2 team playoff/championship?

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You’re assuming that the playoff is existing in a vacuum and doesn’t impact college football as a whole. Recruiting has been impacted. The transfer portal has been created. Coaching decisions and hirings have been impacted. Resources. Mindset.

The bowl games have diminished in terms of importance. Players are opting out of finishing seasons with their teams (pre-covid).

The culture of CFB has changed and for the worse. There is zero reason to expect anything to change over the next 2-3 years. We will have Alabama, Clemson, Ohio St/Oklahoma in the playoff every year.

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Ohio State being in and Oklahoma being 6th shows that the committee makes their decisions based on “reputation” and past success

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We don't start with a clean slate for these rankings. Honestly I'd do away with pre season rankings and rankings at all until the first CFP rankings came out. But of course that's not going to happen for a variety of reasons based around money.

But the pre-season rankings based on last year and what we "expect" a team to do can carry a team all year because of a pre existing bias. Ohio State was always going to be a top 5 team pre season and wouldn't matter how well/sloppy they played because they have the preexisting advantage of being a pre season top 5 team.

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You’re assuming that the playoff is existing in a vacuum and doesn’t impact college football as a whole. Recruiting has been impacted. The transfer portal has been created. Coaching decisions and hirings have been impacted. Resources. Mindset.

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you just gave a bunch of "reasons" but never once explained to me how those benefit Bama/OSU/Clemson only and no one else, and on top of that, how all those "reasons" you just gave what not benefit those 3 teams if we had a 2 team championship instead of a 4 game playoff. Can you explain the difference?

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The bowl games have diminished in terms of importance.

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Why? How does 2 or 4 team postseason have anything to do with all these random other bowl games?

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Players are opting out of finishing seasons with their teams (pre-covid).

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That was always going to start happening at some point. Some dude on the 24th ranked team in the season skipping the bowl game would magically decide not to skip if there was no 4 team playoff, why? What's the logic in that?

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We will have Alabama, Clemson, Ohio St/Oklahoma in the playoff every year.

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Again, explain how those teams wouldn't dominate the championship if it were only 2 teams. I'd argue going only 2 teams and not 4 would actually make it even more difficult for other teams to sneak in as they'd have to get to top 2, instead of just top 4.

I just feel like everyone is saying lots of things but not once giving a single example of how any of what they're saying has anything to do with a 4 team playoff.

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This sort of thing happens from time to time in all sports.

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Right, we're just in a period of having a couple of dominant schools. That was going to happen whether there were 2 or 16 team playoffs at the end of the season.