The Current System is Broken

Aside from my disdain of a committee choosing the teams, this slate of bowl games has proven to me that the current system we have in college football is broken. Here are the biggest issues I see:

1. Trying to mix the Old Bowl system with a New Playoff System just doesn't work

You either need to do one or the other, but trying to mix the two just doesn't work. No one cares about the ACC's tie-in with the Orange Bowl. This causes a team like UVA... who shouldn't even be ranked in the Top 25... to get into a playoff game, which will therefore give us a game no one wants to see. Completely wasted spot which could have been a good game if a decent opponent for Florida had been slotted.

2. It's time to stop pretending the PAC 12 is relevant

All season long the so called "experts" told us how great Utah is and how we peasants just don't know how good they are. Utah is not a good team. They have zero wins against Top 25 teams. We were told they have an exceptionally great defense.... only reality showed us that when they faced two Top 25 opponents, they went 0-2 and gave up 30 and 37 points each outing, respectively. Sorry, but there is nothing special about that defense.

The 5th best team in the SEC has now defeated the PAC 12 Champions on a neutral field in back-to-back seasons.

In the past four years, the PAC 12 has produced just twelve teams to finish ranked in the Final AP Top 25..... these 12 teams which are the best to come out of that league in the past four seasons are a combined 2-9 against other ranked opponents.... and that doesn't count losses to UNRANKED opponents like USC's loss this year to BYU or Washington's loss last season to Auburn.

Why do we pretend that the PAC 12 is on par with these other leagues? It's not. How is it that different than the American?

3. The ACC is also a joke

At least they are giving us one quality team each year that can compete at a National level. However, there's too much at stake for there to be THIS much inequality when it comes to SOS among the potential Playoff teams. How can a team like Auburn be asked to play the #1, #5, #6, #7, and #13 teams all in the regular season yet a team like Clemson face only the #24 team in an extra game played in December?

How many other teams would be 13-0 against Clemson's schedule? I'm guessing at least 15 teams, and most of those would have also looked very impressive in the process.

College football is becoming somewhat unwatchable. There needs to be a major overhaul to the system.