College Football Playoffs are broken but not beyond repair

It really doesn’t matter if you’re a college football fan or not, you can’t escape the rather unrealistic overhyping of it all. That is of course unless you’ve been living under a rock with no access to the proliferation of sports talk shows featuring the alleged experts, which in turn has provided you with a rather envious respite from the multi-billion-dollar tsunami being billed as a totally legitimate College Football Tournament. Forget the fact that the committee in charge of ranking and bracketing the twelve teams who received the sacred invitations to participate in this made for television debacle is comprised of former coaches, athletic directors, players, and even a sportswriter. They can’t even agree on what pizza toppings they want to devour when their lunch arrives in the fancy conference room that is home for nothing short of an old-fashioned mensa meeting. Things like strength of schedule and what conference you labor in doesn’t carry the weight you’d think they would, as it’s all about how many lethargic opponents you bulldozed 55 to 0 in route to compiling that most important and shiny resume for the committee to peruse as they do their very best impersonation of the man...