The main thing I dislike about the new 12 team format is the byes for the top four teams. These four teams, will be the same ones that go to the playoff most years, they don’t need the help of a bye. These teams already have huge advantages over the rest of the playoff field, so why make the playoff non competitive? The top four teams are going to win the playoff every single year into the forseeable future. It’s great to include more teams from around the country (although there are going to be too many SEC teams, for the appearance of fairness) to keep more of the college football nation involved for longer. The bye makes it so the top four teams, are even more of prohibitive favorites than they are currently (no accident that we keep seeing the same teams). My team would benefit from these byes, but it is bad for the sport, in that it makes the playoff lack competitiveness.