Introductory post

College Football is one of the most unique and entertaining sports on the planet. I , like many others, am a huge college football fan. I watch tons of games. I loyally watch  my favorite team, the Illinois Fighting Illini, no matter how good or bad they are( sadly it's usually the latter). I watch the elite teams and follow the national title race and the heisman race. I even follow some of the crappy teams. I watched SMU(1-11) get it's first win of the 2014 season against UConn on it's last game(read CBS Sports' Bottom 25, it makes the worst teams in college football really interesting). I love the different styles of play, the tradition, the fans and the pageantry of the college game. That being said there's one fatal flaw that college football has: it's post season system.
The college football postseason has generally been hugely flawed. It's the only sport where a chance at the national title isn't decided on the field but rather based on the opinions of a group of people. During the pre-BCS era, you just played bowl games after the season was over and then various media members vote on who's the best team(in a top 25 poll) and that team wins the national title. That sounds ridiculous but that's how things were. Then came the BCS and BCS national championship game. A complicated formula, which somehow combined top 25 polls(Coaches Poll and Harris Poll, I believe) and other ranking formulas, determined the 2 best teams and those two teams would compete for the national championship while other teams played in meaningless bowl games(glorified exhibitions). Now starting this season(2014-15), things have changed. College Football was finally going to have a playoff.
Unfortunately, the current college football playoff isn't much better. A committee of various people(a media member, a former player, an air force academy superintendent, the former NCAA vice prez, a good former coach, a terrible former coach,former big east commish, athletic directors who definitely aren't biased, and a politician who happens to be a Stanford fan) will, in their eternal wisdom, select the four best(whatever that means) teams in college football and have them play in the playoff while the rest of the teams play in glorified exhibition games(bowl games). It's a step in the right direction but still has huge flaws that can be easily fixed.
In the next few posts, I will show the fatal flaws in the college football's postseason system, shared by previous systems and the current system. Then I will show my proposal for the college football postseason, one that is fair and logical.
Also if this blog ever gains any sort of following/ popularity, I'll be open to responding to all comments.