There was not a competitive #4 this year that had the metrics to get the ranking. Not Alabama with two conference losses. Not Georgia, who had just been blown out by LSU. OU beat Baylor twice. No PAC-12 team deserved it, no other ACC team. Who else was there, if not OU?
If four is too many, what is the alternative? A bye to the championship game for #1?
I heard the LSU assistant coaches were saying âoff recordâ that OK was not a top 15 team. Looks like they were right.
Only part of all NCAA sports that does not have a TRUE Champion. Any sport for that matter. Bunch of Jokers pick 4 teams. 
RIDICULOUS
As opposed to the basketball tournament where a bunch of jokers pick 68 teams? Or baseball with 64, 16 of whom get home field advantage?
My first response is, âso?â The second is how do you define a âtrueâ champion? If you mean the team that won the tournament at the end of the year, yeah, thatâs the champion. NCAA football has a 4-team tournament. However, anyone who thinks the year-end tournaments necessarily determine the best team or who was the best team throughout the year, youâre terribly mistaken.
This thread warms my heart. Ever since I came up with this format (no, Iâm not on the committeeâŚnor am I Larry Culpepper) 20+ years ago, and explained it to peopleâŚlong before it was adopted by the NCAAâŚthe argument I usually got was that it does not incorporate enough teams. i.e, it needs to be more than 4 team.
My response has always been that in most years, selecting four teams will result in one of two types of âerrorsâ; either you will select too few teams (that is to say, more than 4 have a legitimate argument for being in the playoff), or - you will select too MANY teams. In some years (such as this one) 2 or 3 teams are clearly ahead of all the others.
Itâs been my position that in matters regarding Championships, itâs better to err on the side of being more exclusive; that is, limiting the field at the risk of occasionally not including all contenders, rather than regularly allowing pretenders to the throne into the playoff.
For those that say, wellâŚlook at College Basketball and College Football - they are different games that allow for more than one game a week being played. In a series (Baseball) OR when a long-shot would have to win SIX consecutive games to win a Championship (March Madness), allowing some âfillerâ teams in isnât such a big deal. But winning 3 games in 3 or 4 weeks (if 8 were allowed in the CFP) is doable for a âpretty good teamâ that gets hot or faces some teams with late-season injury problems. That doesnât mean the 8th seed is the BEST team in the country, and they shouldnât be in the playoff to begin withâŚbecause their regular season had not EARNED them the right to be included.
You canât change the number of teams in the playoff every year - you have to select a number and stick to it. I think 4 is THE right number that, year after year, will best ensure that the right teams are involved without unnecessarily diluting the field with teams that donât deserve to be there.
It is all about money! Who ever they put in it will be all about putting rear ends in seats!
OU and Ohio State werenât as good as their record. While OU took on LSU and got railroaded we are probably looking at watching another beat down when LSU takes on Clemson.
Uh, Army, if you have a four-team playoff you have to put in four teams. Even if one isnât good enough. Seats have nothing to do with it. Most of the semifinal and finals tickets are pre-sold; the teams get relatively few, similar to a bowl game. But ESPN doesnât really care if the seats are full; they make their money on the ads, which they then pay to the conferences through the CFP.