Disecting One Small Playoff Issue

There are a lot of issues and pros and cons to the new college football playoff that will start next year.  Talking about all of them at once is a job for the pros who get paid to write long columns.  I want to address one issue, the playoff selection committee.  First things first, here is the committee.

I think people went a little too far against the computer system and wanted a human component.  Only one problem, humans are imperfect and can be affected by many other outside factors.  For instance, there is only one person with ACC ties versus other big conferences that have two or more.  How can that not be a disadvantage for the teams from the ACC?  All the members of the committee have had too much life experience with too many people not to be influenced by something.  This will be an issue not for just who will get in, but seeding also.  Honestly I would feel better about it if all the members were like Condoleezza Rice, she is probably the most unbiased member.

It is also going to be really easy to get mad at the committee when the choices they make don't go to their school.  What if there are 5 undefeated teams this year including Clemson and Clemson gets left out.  Dan Radakovich (Clemson athletic director and committee member) would be tarred and feathered by the Clemson faithful.  It is a terrible conflict of interest.

For all the faults, the BCS did provide the most comprehensive and in depth ranking system we have ever had.  It blended human rankings with statistics to rank the teams.  Why not ditch the committee and still use the computer rankings for who gets in the playoff and playoff seeding.

"OK, maybe she's biased too."