Don’t let the college football debate distract from the beauty of new playoffs

There will always be controversy. There will always be debate.

College football is the scorpion. It is its nature.

This is a sport that spent roughly a century crowning champions without championship games, leaving the task to writers and coaches who leaned on box scores. Later, computers were asked to help pick title-game participants. When a playoff system was finally created, it featured fewer spots than there were power conferences, decided by 13 committee members with varying qualifications and inherent biases.

The four-team playoff didn’t have enough room for every deserving team. Last season, it excluded undefeated Florida State and Georgia, the two-time defending champion that held the No. 1 ranking for more than three months. The 12-team playoff solves several issues — even guaranteeing at least one Cinderella a chair at the table — but it also now feels as if the bouncer has left the bar.

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