There are simply no decent remaining arguments against a playoff system. Some say it would interfere with class schedules. But the vast majority of colleges already puts the gridiron way before the classroom. They know on which side their bread is buttered. The only protest left is tradition.
Problem is, the stuffed suits in college football pulled the rug out from under that one long ago.
Call it the Tostitos effect, after the chip brand that will be plastered all over the field and the name of this year s national title game. College football bowl games have blatantly prostituted themselves to sponsors over the last few years, bringing us not just the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl but even the hallowed Carquest Bowl. Last year the entire name of one bowl the entire name was an Internet site. An Internet site. This year even the hallowed Rose Bowl will be presented by a long distance company, sending this writer running into the hills, tearing his clothes, mourning the loss of the last semblance of conscience in sports.