In his Nov. 2 article regarding the initial College Football Playoff rankings, Matt Calkins asks “could you imagine an undefeated Pac-12 champion being excluded from the Top 4?”
Unfortunately, yes. Sports fans suffered through the politicized joke called the BCS from 1998 to 2013. Moving from that travesty to a playoff format did not automatically alter the good-old-boy institution still active behind the scenes.
That said, the Huskies can mitigate the bias favoring the SEC year after year by scheduling tougher nonconference opponents. How about inviting Texas A&M to a little soiree on the shores of Lake Washington?