Only in 1 instance throughout the 16 year history of the BCS did an undeserving team make the BCSCG. A playoff of any size will automatically incorporate more undeserving teams.
It's all inclusion versus exclusion. My desired outcome is to exclude as many undeserving teams as possible, even if it means that some deserving teams are excluded. Your desired outcome is to include as many deserving teams as possible, even if it means that some undeserving teams are included.
Your way sucks, and it will only serve to desecrate the best regular season in sports. It's only going to get worse as the playoff expands.
-YTC
For someone who talks a lot of uneducated shit about computer metrics, you're awfully supportive of a ranking system whose formula was 66% computer metrics.
I don't even disagree with you, I think the BCS would be FAR better than a committee like we have now. I don't think the BCS only got it wrong once (I assume you mean Nebraska 2001-2002), but it was right more than it was wrong. I don't see what would have been so bad about keeping the BCS and putting the first 4 (or 8, or 16) teams into a playoff. I am very much against a committee deciding who the deserving playoff teams are, especially when they are not particularly open about how they come to that conclusion.
That said, your point about undeserving teams being included in a playoff system is kind of being proven wrong this year don't you think? At the moment, there are 7 very qualified playoff teams not to mention undefeated Marshall and a few very good two loss teams. Obviously a lot can change in the next few weeks, but a 4 team playoff is going to look pretty stupid if 11-1 teams like Baylor, TCU and Ohio State are watching from home and a 12-0 Marshall team can't even crack the top 10.
I want the regular season to have importance, I agree it is the best and most meaningful regular season in sports and that shouldn't change. At the same time, a 4 team playoff in a 128 team division of football is going to exclude far more deserving teams over the course of its existence than it will include undeserving teams.