The committee becomes useful, though, in choosing a playoff field. Unlike the NFL’s tidy structure, the FBS features more than 130 programs in conferences of varying sizes competing for one prize.

The NFL, of course, would never allow a committee to choose its playoff – but that shouldn’t influence how college football models its postseason.

The committee becomes useful, though, in choosing a playoff field. Unlike the NFL’s tidy structure, the FBS features more than 130 programs in conferences of varying sizes competing for one prize.

To be clear, the selection committee does not form college football’s lifeblood. A playoff didn’t even exist until 2014. The sport’s backbone is formed by rivalries, pageantry and stadium atmospheres ...