The satisfying simplicity of sports is in the definitive result. A game is played. There is a winner and a loser and the winner gets a reward.
Often that reward is to just keep playing. Those are the rules from the schoolyard to stadiums.
It is a model that generally works great, just not necessarily for major college football. With some legitimate reasons, the sport is resistant to the simplest premise: If you win something, you get something.
Five years into the College Football Playoff there is a lot of chatter about expanding the four-team field .