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The playoff committee and ESPN insist all is well; do you believe them? Issues & Answers

The power brokers who govern college football's postseason essentially are conference commissioners from the five power conferences and their television partners, and it seems to me they operate in a bubble separating themselves from the rest of us.

They live as part of the one percent by soaking fans and refusing to pay the guys playing the games, then throw their riches round like confetti falling after a College Football Playoff finale.

They party onward like Louis XXI, apparently only dimly aware a revolution is brewing.

As I wrote yesterday, I'm skipping the telecast of this year's game.