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[quote author=garvin link=topic=9073.msg77222#msg77222 date=1386519834]
It is comically stupid to say this BCS selection process is biased and the new playoff selection system won't be. What makes Ty.rone Will.ingham or Condi Rice or Archie Manning or Pat Haden immune to bias? Anything that involves voting by human beings entails bias. And the idea that a newspaper reporter is more biased than the University of Second Choice. athletic director is patently absurd.

Absolutely right.  Going from the BCS to the new playoff system means that we're going from a system mostly determined by biased human voters to a system entirely determined by biased human voters.  Taking the computers out of the picture is a step backwards.  The only improvement is that now it'll be a 4-team playoff, but the selection process for those 4 teams will almost certainly be worse than the selection process for the BCS championship game now.
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But the aspect 4 team playoff is a brobdingnagian improvement.  With 5 major conferences (SEC, PAC, Big12, Big10, ACC), someone will always be left out, and there will always still be griping, but at least we will get to see those games on the field.  And with the strength of the Pac12 overall (which is gaining respect and appears to be getting stronger except for maybe Cal), if we are fortunate to become Pac-12 champs again, we will undoubtedly get 1 of those 4 slots.  That makes the goal much more fair, we just have to win the Pac-12 against the teams that we play against, and we don't have to win over public opinion.  Being Pac-12 champ will be enough. 

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[quote author=garvin link=topic=9073.msg77222#msg77222 date=1386519834]
It is comically stupid to say this BCS selection process is biased and the new playoff selection system won't be. What makes Ty.rone Will.ingham or Condi Rice or Archie Manning or Pat Haden immune to bias? Anything that involves voting by human beings entails bias. And the idea that a newspaper reporter is more biased than the University of Second Choice. athletic director is patently absurd.

Absolutely right.  Going from the BCS to the new playoff system means that we're going from a system mostly determined by biased human voters to a system entirely determined by biased human voters.  Taking the computers out of the picture is a step backwards.  The only improvement is that now it'll be a 4-team playoff, but the selection process for those 4 teams will almost certainly be worse than the selection process for the BCS championship game now.
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But the aspect 4 team playoff is a brobdingnagian improvement.  With 5 major conferences (SEC, PAC, Big12, Big10, ACC), someone will always be left out, and there will always still be griping, but at least we will get to see those games on the field.  And with the strength of the Pac12 overall (which is gaining respect and appears to be getting stronger except for maybe Cal), if we are fortunate to become Pac-12 champs again, we will undoubtedly get 1 of those 4 slots.  That makes the goal much more fair, we just have to win the Pac-12 against the teams that we play against, and we don't have to win over public opinion.  Being Pac-12 champ will be enough.