Doug Robinson: College football's format for deciding national title is, literally, a no-brainer

Instead of choosing two teams for the championship game, it will choose four for the playoff — not much of an improvement. The NCAA basketball tournament committee selects 68 teams. A football committee will have to choose four teams out of 125 schools. Good luck. The selections will still be based on polls, computer data, strength of schedule, head-to-head matchups, scores, blah ... blah ... blah ...

Remember, it wasn't long ago that college football thought it was doing us all a big favor simply by — and this was such a revolutionary concept at the time — matching the top two ranked teams in the SAME BOWL GAME. This is their next Big Idea.

The bottom line: It's still the SEC's game and everybody else has to like it. Two weeks ago, Alabama — ranked No. 1 at the time — lost to Texas A&M and slipped all the way to, ugh, No. 4. A week later, the Crimson Tide returned to No. 2 and almost all has been forgiven for that loss. It's not what you do, it's who you are and who you know.

SEC schools are ranked Nos. 2, 3 and 4 —Alabama, Georgia, Florida, respectively. Does anybody really believe Georgia and Florida are better than Oregon, which didn't receive as much forgiveness for its one loss (in overtime to Stanford) as the SEC teams for their one loss? For the eighth straight year, the national championship game will feature a SEC team. If the playoff were held this year, three of the four teams would be from the SEC.

Blame it all on shrinking intelligence.

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