Here's some reaction to the recent annoucement that there will be a four-team playoff to determine a college football champion starting in 2014:
PRESIDENTS GET PLAYOFF PLAN RIGHT (Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN.com)
Everything about the 2014 version of postseason college football is going to be better than what we have now. A Final Four of football is better than a Final Two, especially when the Final Two was determined by a flawed polls model and by computer standings that required interpreters to understand...MORE
PHOOEY TO FOUR-TEAM PLAYOFF FORMAT (Patrick Rishe, Forbes.com)
With a selection committee to reside over the previous BCS system, you invite bias and greater subjectivity into the mix than is otherwise desired. And to top it off, in an act that seems as illogical as the old scheme, they are committing to it for 12 years...MORE
GOOD PLAN, BUT HAS PROBLEMS & LOSERS (John Ziegler, HuffingtonPost.com)
This new plan still has more than a few important kinks to be worked out. From here, it feels more like an engagement than an actual wedding. It will probably come to full fruition, but there is a good chance at least someone is going to regret it...MORE
NEW PLAYOFF SET UP ELIMINATES HAVE-NOTS (Dennis Dodd, CBSSports.com)
Removing labels doesn't remove the reality. A playoff probably lessens access for the sport's unwashed. At least makes it more uncertain. That selection committee? Its composition will have to reflect that the Big East is no longer considered a BCS-level conference. The ACC has become less of a factor. That Big Four -- Pac-12, Big Ten, SEC, Big 12 -- are calling the shots. To be precise, the commissioners of those leagues are calling the shots...MORE
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