I credit Dan Wetzel's "Death to the BCS" for changing the way I thought about the post-season in college football and for succinctly laying out how a number of playoff systems could work, why they would be the best for the sport, and why many of the criticisms of a playoff system were unfounded. In fact, writing a review of the book (Part 1 & Part 2) was one of the earliest projects I ever took on with One Foot Down.
We're now mere weeks away from the second College Football Playoff finishing up, and through some quality conversations on the new system both here and elsewhere, I believe our current set up has worked well.