Dick Harmon: Dick Tomey says BYU on right path

"The team that gets to the championship game has really played great football all year and in most cases has not been beaten. If you get a playoff, you'll get a team that won the tournament but would they be the best team? I don't know."

Tomey said former Arizona coach Lute Olson was "phenomenal" and he worked with him when he coached the Wildcat football program. "He won a national championship after beating two No. 1 seeds and they were fabulous, but they finished fifth in the Pac-10. Were they the best team in the country? Probably not. But they got hot at the right time."

That is what a playoff might give us, said Tomey.

"I think the teams playing on Jan. 10th are the two best teams, they withstood the test of time and I think in many ways, the BCS keeps the conversation alive. I do believe that college football is leaving a lot of money on the table for somebody else to get. Like in the book 'Death to the BCS,' there is a lot of money out there that is not being captured because of the system. College football needs to find a way to get that revenue."

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