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Agreed.

I don't like a playoff scheme that offers a better than 50% chance that the playoff champion is not the best team.

Even an 8 team playoff makes it likely that the champion will not be the "best team".

I like the four team set up.  It is a balance between giving the best team a good shot at winning and not leaving out the real best team.  I doubt the teams ranked 5th or 6th are the real best team more than one time in ten years, if that.

I could go with 6 personally, but I think that is over the edge of the ideal compromise.

They COULD BE, but I think it happens once in a decade, maybe.  The COM should be able to find a best team with four shots.

That last spot will nearly always be contentious, whether 4 or 6 or 8 or 16.

Yeah, if we just was the truest full season champ, I'd like to return to a poll based method, pre-1998. But I gave up with that argument because I'm happier when my words aren't pointless. Now I accept that we're doing this thing, and accept that it's already crushed bowl (Rose) traditions and risks encroaching on the import of the regular season. So I just want the smallest playoff to include P5 champions. So I want 6.
We're in this weird inflection point where even people who hated the idea of going from two to four think it'd be far better if we grew from four to six.

Expand playoff to include six teams.  P5 conference champions automatically get a bid.  The sixth slot can be at large for independents or members of non-P5 conference.  If you're in a P5 conference and not the champion, too bad.  I don't care if you're ranked #2 and some other P5 champion is ranked 30.