2017 Potential College Football Playoff(based on my proposals)

2014 intro
Flaws on current system 2014
Take on Autobids and Conf Champs Games
Preferred 16 team playoff plan        Alternate 8 team playoff plan

Personal yearly tradition of updating my seldom visited blog. I always enjoy filling out the match-ups for my playoff proposals using my proposals. So, I'll do this until there is a change to make college football fair.
Shout out to UCF for being the only undefeated team in the nation(going into bowl season). Of course, this unfair post season system eliminated UCF from the national title discussion before a single game was played. But I was told that in college football "every game matters" and that "every game is a playoff game". What a load of crap. I'm not saying UCF is a playoff caliber team(honestly not impressed with their defense), but an unbeaten team deserves a chance at a national championship and my playoff proposal would give UCF that chance. A fair system gives every team a chance at the title when the season begins. In this system, half of the FBS is eliminated regardless of how their season goes. (Jan 2018 update. UCF defeats Auburn, a team that beat UGA and Alabama, the two finalists. That plus their unbeaten season gives them a legitimate claim to the 2017-18 national championship. This flawed, unfair system fails again, as the possible best team in the country isn't given chance to win it all.)
Enough complaining, this year the committee actually did a good job selecting the top 4 teams. Clemson, Oklahoma and Georgia were shoo-ins. Alabama(11-1, only loss of the season was a road loss to a great team one week alone) was the logical second choice. Back to complaining, I am tired of hearing Ohio State (10-2, dominated at home against Oklahoma, 31 pt loss to 7-5 Iowa) fans (including OSU fans in the media) complain about their team not being ranked ahead of Alabama. Ohio St has undeservedly made the playoff twice already. But that was over TCU/Baylor(2014) and Penn St(2016) but Alabama is also a brand name school, so this time a fair decision was made. (TV ratings will be high for Clemson vs Ohio St or Clemson vs Bama so might as well actually make a fair decision).
Back to more complaining, I'm tired of people calling automatic bids "handouts". Handouts are what were are currently doing now(and what Ohio State got in 2014 and 2016). They are handing out playoff spots to who they think is best, often independent of on the field results. It's unreliable and subjective(and the criteria seems to change every year). Winning your conference isn't based on subjectivity but rather direct results on the field. Automatic bids are earned, no matter what conference you are in. However, at-large bids(used mainly to make the bracket 8 or 16 teams so that they tournament structure runs smoothly) are handouts to teams that didn't win a conference championship and are subjective.

Anyways let's get to it:

16 team playoff plan(this one):
Based on 2017 season.Automatic bids:Georgia(SEC), Clemson(ACC), Ohio State (B10), Oklahoma(B12), Southern Cal(P12), UCF(AAC), Troy(Sun Belt), Boise State(Mtn West),FAU(C-USA), Toledo(MAC)

At-large bids(trying to think like committee):Wisconsin, Alabama, Penn State, Miami, Auburn, Washington

That looks like a great field. Lots of great football teams that had great seasons.

Snubs: None this year, to be honest. I want to make one more real life complaint about the last team into this fictional tournament.
Washington(10-2): Why they are ranked ahead of UCF? UCF's two Memphis(No.20 10-2) wins are better than 1 Wazzu(No. 18 9-3)(Washington's only quality win). Regardless Washington doesn't have any competition for that last spot.

Seedings/first round matchups(Trying to seed/rank them like a committee would):
1. Clemson vs. 16.FAU
2. Oklahoma vs. 15.Toledo
3. Georgia vs. 14. Troy
4. Alabama vs. 13. Boise State
5. Ohio State vs. 12. UCF
6. Wisconsin vs. 11. Washington
7. Auburn vs 10. Miami
8. USC vs 9. Penn State

Comments: Seems like an interesting bracket. The Wisconsin/Washington matchup kind of sucks(seems really boring).  But Troy beat LSU which beat Auburn which beat Georgia, so you never know. UCF vs Ohio St could be a really good matchup(depending on which OSU team shows up, they've been so inconsistent). USC-Penn St was a great Rose Bowl matchup last year, would be fun to watch an encore that actually matters.

8 team playoff plan(this one):

Based on 2017 season.

Automatic bids:
Georgia(SEC), Clemson(ACC), Ohio State(B10), Oklahoma(B12), Southern Cal(P12), UCF(best of group of 5)

At-large bids(trying to think like committee): Alabama, Wisconsin

Snubs:
Penn St(10-2): Eye test shows that they are probably better than Wisconsin but the eye test is extremely subjective and biased. Wisconsin has similar caliber of wins and a better record.
Miami(10-2): Losing to Pitt and getting blasted by Clemson really sunk their postseason hopes.
Washington(10-2): Weak schedule, only quality win against No. 18 Wazzu. Even UCF has two wins against No. 20 Memphis.

Seedings/first round matchups(Trying to seed/rank them like a committee would):
1. Clemson vs. 8. UCF
2. Oklahoma vs. 7. USC
3. Georgia vs. 6. Wisconsin
4. Alabama vs. 5.Ohio State

Comments: Undefeated team vs No.1 is always intriguing. Oklahoma vs USC would be a crazy shootout. UGA- Wisconsin sounds boring but that's what you get during years when Wisconsin is good. The Alabama vs Ohio St debate would be settled on the field, not in some committee or in the media. I still prefer the 16 team plan from a conceptual/fairness standpoint but I can't lie: for the 2nd straight year, the 8 team plan produced a more intriguing bracket.

Hopefully, some day greedy executives can realize that they can get even richer and improve the sport if they expand the playoff in a fair way. Maybe someone of importance can miraculously come across this obscure blog and be enlightened to the truth.(That sounded really arrogant).