New CFP Format...

[Dugan15]

It is difficult to claim "We're determining the national champ" when Indiana is on the field... or SMU or Clemson or Arizona State. None of those teams is deserving of an opportunity. So credibility is lost immediately.

What happened was that the major conferences looked at the economics and came up with something that addressed all of their monetary desires. We want to protect the conference championship games. We want guaranteed money for as many of the major conference teams as we can get. They left out the previous requirement "We want each team to have a legitimate argument that they are the best team."

And once you do that, you easily can expand the tournament to include a lot more teams - that is the obvious plan.

If Indiana or SMU goes on a 4-game heater, then yes, they do deserve to be National Champions.

 

[Just Gary]

What it seems like (as opposed to fair) is that the conferences are trying to force Notre Dame to join a conference and share their revenue.
Fair has ZERO to do with it.

The only people who would think it is unfair for ND not to get a bye while all the other bye teams had to play one more game to win that bye is a Notre Dame fan. As someone who didn’t care two shits about ND, I am glad they don’t get special treatment over conference teams.