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People arguing that we should get rid of the playoff because UCF didn't get in/ there was no "justice" in the selection of teams must be forgetting how much more ambiguous things were in the past. Under the previous systems, this year's champion would have been even more in question. FBS is the only collegiate sport that didn't have some sort of playoff which was crazy - every other level of football in college has a playoff.
Also - playing devil's advocate re: UCF, does anyone else think that perhaps they came in with a chip on their shoulder for not having made the CFP and that they caught a seriously deflated Auburn team that controlled their own destiny, and laid an egg in the SEC championship vs a team they smoked earlier this year? Auburn had their ticket to the playoff and lost it - UCF was playing to prove that they belonged in the playoff
Deciding whether a team is/or is not worthy of playing for the championship based off speculation is why we are in this situation in the first place. I have a hard time believing athletes at this level can just turn off their competiveness. And if Auburn gets a pass then should Ohio State have gotten a pass vs Iowa? We could speculate they really didn't think Iowa was going to give them a game so they weren't prepared... it could go on forever. It should be a results oriented champion and not keep teams out based on Condoleezza Rice's opinion.