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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 876748, member: 40"]
Nonsense.  The BCS was designed to remove the subjectivity that went into determining champions under the prior system, as well as to compensate for the two best teams often not playing each other due to conference bowl affiliation obligations.

The BCS formula has been much criticized--but at the end of the day it was just math.  If people don't like the evaluative criteria or the weighting certain factors had, then they could be changed.  And that happened often.  Now, you could certainly argue about the mathematical inputs, whether the wrong factors were weighted too heavily, etc. but at the end of the day the two "best" teams as calculated by that year's mathematical model were identified and matched up.

I don't have an issue with a playoff system.  It will probably be more exciting, it just won't necessarily guarantee that the "best" teams meet up in the NC game every year.  Marsh's points above say it all, IMO.  But I think you are going to see even worse politics than ever before in the polling system to jockey teams into that top 4.  Imagine having an awesome season and being ranked the #5 team, but missing out on the NC playoffs?  Especially if human subjectivity is part of how participants are determined [especially given conference bias, media bias, the impact of being rated highly to begin the season, etc.].  4 is too few.  8 is probably too few; have a tough time justifying two top ten teams being left out of the playoff.  Will be interesting to see how it plays out the first few  years.
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