A four-team seeded bracket was a step in the right direction, but a bigger step would be to expand to 16 teams and guarantee spots for Group Of Five members.
The top division of college football has always had a peculiar method of declaring its best team. Despite the majority of the athletic world producing a champion through a tournament of some sort, or head-to-head competition, what college football did for most of its existence was simply rely on the media to declare a champion.
What follows is a brief recapitulation of how the NCAA has selected its college football champion, including the three precursors to the BCS.