A Four Team College Football Playoff Agreed To From 2014-2025

A four team college football playoff was agreed to on June 26th. The playoff likely will begin in the 2014 season which means we have to live through 2 more years of this currently broken system. The approved playoff agreement extends through the 2025 season, so the playoff won't be expanding to eight teams or 16 teams anytime soon. My preference is a 16 or 32 team playoff but 4 team is a start and maybe we will actually a tournament in college football like there is in college basketball. The 4 teams will be selected in a similar way college basketball does using a selection committee. The committee will probably including 15 members of a mixture of current conference commissioners, athletics directors and former coaches. The committee will have to give all teams an equal opportunity to participate in the playoffs and will also consider factors such as strength of schedule, head-to-head results and whether a team is a conference champion. The semifinal games will be played in a rotation among six bowl sites and the championship game will be offered to the highest bidding city. At this point, only two games are guaranteed a spot in the semifinals rotation: the Champions Bowl (which will face Big 12 against the SEC) and the Rose Bowl (which face the Big Ten vs. the Pac-12). The ACC is close to finalizing an agreement with the Orange Bowl, which would also become one of the three contract games included in the rotation. Under the 12-year agreement approved by the presidents each of the six bowl games would host a semifinal game four times. Commissioners said the first semifinals games will be played on either Dec. 31, 2014 or Jan. 1, 2015. The first national championship game is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2015 and commissioners plan to play the championship game on the second Monday night of January in each of the first five seasons. The  ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and SEC champions will be guaranteed a spot in one of the six major bowls and in one of the semifinals if they're selected by the committee. The teams in college football's other leagues have to hope they're good enough to be selected by the committee. By adding two more major bowl games, the commissioners feel like they've increased the chances of a team in non-BCS conferences playing in one of the six bowl games. There will be more teams going to the bowls going from 8 teams and the championship to 12 teams and 2 teams getting to play a second game. Some people think this will fix all the controversy but I things it increases. Now instead of the #3 and #4 team complaining you could have teams #5-#8 complaining. An example in 2010 season you had a obvious top 3 teams. #1 Auburn at 13-0, #2 Oregon at 12-0 and #3 TCU at 12-0 and then #4-#8 teams all had 1 loss and 3 teams were from the Big Ten and were co-champions because the Big Ten didn't have a Title Game yet. This system solves some problem not all problems and in 2023 or 2024 there will probably be a new agreement to fix this new system.