Foote: This new playoff system may work after all

[NewsCopy]

If you didn't believe it before this season, hopefully the way this new college football playoff system has played out will convince you to at least consider the possibility.

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[NickatNite]

Without it, season over, Oregon 1, Ohio St. 2. Now, we get extra game to watch and no arguments! It works!!
TCU's hiccup cost them dearly. Hindsight, but obviously FSU didn't belong. Think they were rewarded based on prior year. Yeah, they went undefeated, but needed 6 double digit comebacks against mediocre opponents. While an impressive feat, it also tells you they weren't good enough to rout teams they should have.
I'm not saying win/loss should be discounted, but Hopefully the committee, in the future gives a little more cred to schedule strength and a little less to win/loss. I mean Oregon and Ohio St. each lost a game, but they've proven they are the two best teams.

[Just1More]

I don't know anyone that didn't consider even this minimalistic playoff scheme to be an improvement over the BCS. It's only an argument of whether expansion to more teams is an improvement. The results aren't a needed endorsement of the logic of a playoff as much as they prove how pathetic the pre-crowning of greatness was (and still is) a mistake.