I think the BCS made sufficient adjustments to get it "right enough" for selecting the top 4 after the 2004 debacle. There is no perfect solution, but I think the CFPs would be just as good or better had they kept the BCS polling model and gone to a 4 team playoff.

The Harris Poll replaced the AP poll in 2005 and was very similar to the design to the current committee.

If they brought back the computer polls, threw out the garbage Coaches Poll, and replaced the Harris with the current committee, I think they would have it just about right.

The bowl season for me became garbage slowly overtime with the continual expansion of the bowl games. Too many crap and overlapping matchups with odd airing times. Most are playing in virtually empty stadiums.

But, this is hardly a new complaint, and it is only going to get worse. From an interesting SB nation article on it... People have been complaining about too many bowls for at least 88 years:

"Minnesota coach Bernie Bierman...said in 1937, “This matter of bowl games is getting beyond control, however. If it keeps up, there will be so many of them it will be a joke.”

Cartoon pic of bowl exhaustion after expanding to 5 New Years Day bowls in '38

1938 sports editorial opinions:
"-They are okay if we don’t get any more.
-Personally, I dislike the hypocrisy connected with the games, but they do help liven up the sport pages during the dull holiday season.
-Two or three are all right, but too many of them cheapen the sport."

Like the article says, TV has been the driver behind the expansion from the 70s forward, and it isn't going to slow down. The postseason has jumped from an avg of 16-19 bowls in the 80s and 90s to 25 in 2000 and ballooned to 40 by 2018, with an expectation of more growth in 2020 featuring who knows how many teams with losing records.

All that said, the article supports that people will complain, but we will still watch.

In the 2016 bowl season:

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Every bowl game was in the top five in sports for the day save for one and all of them made the top 15 on cable overall. 2.5 million viewers for a football game between Troy and Ohio! That’s just a ridiculously good number for those two teams in that bowl game.

The only other sports programs to make cable’s top 10 during the same period? Two were NFL games and NFL related programming for Monday Night Football on ESPN and Thursday Night Football on NFL Network. Another was the Kentucky-Louisville college basketball rivalry game.