Yeah, and IMO part of the problem is now, they'd have to go play OSU in Indy, and probably lose.
Look, college football has BY FAR the most deserving champ every year. You take the sport where the better team most frequently wins, and you've added extra layers of protection, but I think it's taken a lot away. Andy Staples and Nicole Auerbach were discussing this on his podcast this week. We went from 2 to 4, and we've eliminated a lot of the randomness, while simultaneously made the CFP some sort of easily attainable goal. Like, most programs didn't judge a coach for not finishing in the top 2, so long as he was still winning conference titles, but we went to 4, and suddenly, that became the metric.
It's two completely different but sort of related critiques of mine, of the CFP/CCG era. We know who the best teams are. The flukiness/importance of a singular regular season game has been diminished by the redundancies built into the system now. While simultaneously diminishing the importance of most of those games.
