At the start of the 2014 season, college football fans were promised something that was going to “revolutionize” the sport. The introduction of the four team CFB Playoff system was going to, in the minds of those behind it, finally settle a “true champion” on the field…something it had done for the last seven decades, but that’s not the point.
One of the things that the playoff system claimed it was going to do was decide a champion while protecting the integrity of the game – while making the sport “great” again in making sure that teams who won their conference, or at the very least division, got extra credit for doing so…using the examples of Nebraska in 2001 and Alabama in 2011 as something that wouldn’t happen now.