It’s been seven years, now. Seven years seems like an impossibly long time ago and that playoff article still leaves me with some fond memories of sports arguments over the nature of the changing playoff beast in the NCAA. Well, the first iteration of the thing ended up being a cyclical foray into a tag team of the usual “offenders”. Four teams, almost complete selected by a committee just doesn’t really cut the football mustard. Football seasons are won and lost on the field, not on a polling sheet perused through and marked by coaches, assistants, select sports journalists, and then a committee of insiders.