There are simply to many teams in college to go with the standard playoff scheme. It's not so much about your record alone as your record combined with the strength of your schedule for the year. Why should and undefeated team playing small schools go for the championship against a school that gets a loss but played a host of big tough schools? Little teams get their chance all the time to upset a big school. Take Michigan's loss last week to an unranked team or on the other side of the fence Central Michigan University taking a stomping from Kansas. Let's face it, big schools have better programs. Why? THey got all that money to entice the best to come play for them. It's not a horrible system once you get to understand it. Does it have it's faults? Sure it does, some teams do get by with name only for a season or so, but in the end it's what we got and have had for a long time and I see it's existence for a long time to come.
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