Parity is a word that is gradually escaping college football’s reality. In the seven years of the College Football Playoff era, either Alabama or Clemson have won the National Championship in five of those instances. Out of the 28 teams to make the playoffs, 20 of them have been Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, or Oklahoma. With these perennial members of the playoffs, it has become possible to predict the top four not only in this year’s playoffs but for future years as well with extremely high accuracy.
Officials around the nation saw this as a sign that a change needed to be made.