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The College Football Playoff Selection Committee has a new chair and new members. It doesn't really matter.
Sorry if this take sucks, it’s not my fault …
It's a 13th-ranked take in a 12-take world.
The process will still be rigged against Florida State, because, of course, everything is rigged against Florida State
The College Football Playoff announced that Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel will be the new chair of the whole thing, and other college dignitaries - Patrick Chun, Randall McDaniel, Gary Pinkel, Mack Rhoades, Carla Williams and Hunter Yurachek - will be new members of the section committee, and ...
It doesn't really matter.
What does matter is that the influence of this bunch has been lessened in a big, big way - FINALLY.
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Going forward, five of the 12 teams in the expanded College Football Playoff will play their way in, the top four ranked conference champs get a bye - basically, the four Power 4 championship game winners will have those byes - at least five of the seven at-large teams will be totally obvious, and the focus will be on those one or two other teams in the mix for the last spots.
There's a difference, though, between picking between deserving teams for the fourth spot in a four-team tournament, and debating over fringe teams for the lower seeds.
I'm not telling tales out of school here or anything, but it's not like these committee members are full-time college football experts.
Unlike people like, say, me - I'd name about ten other media types who cover this sport, too, but I don't want to leave anyone out - these are real people with real jobs that actually matter. They don't pour over the endless minutiae of this weird sport day after day after day ...
And they were the ones making the decisions on the four teams that got into the College Football Playoff - and then wondered why so many got into a snit when things went wrong this last season.
But I digress.
For the most part, they got it right over the last ten years, but the process is so murky that when the spit hit the fan, the lack of transparency with this panel of judges was a problem. Now that teams can play their way in, it's all fine.
There will still be controversies, and discussions, and arguments, but the stress and strain of being a committee member has been taken down several notches.
Now, the College Football Playoff Committee is nothing more than a bunch of important people kicking around in Grapevine watching college football for a few weekends late in the year. And that's a positive.
I'm going to keep selling this. Really, the expanded College Football Playoff will make the sport way, WAY better.
