This is the eighth installment in our Things We'd Change in Sports series. To see the full list, visit this page.
Start here, because we must: Expansion of the College Football Playoff, while inevitable, is not imminent. And that’s too bad. Eight would be great.
The four-team bracket is much better than college football’s previous system for crowning a national champion — the reviled Bowl Championship Series. But in five years it has demonstrably become ever more a beauty contest, 13 members of a selection committee paying far more attention, it seems, to the eye test than to the few objective landmarks in a vastly uneven landscape.