A good read against going to a college football playoff, and this is the biggest argument that some of us have against a playoff - that it would devalue the regular season.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/01/22/cardinals-bcs/index.html
Each year, when fans, broadcasters and columnists engage in their annual hand-wringing over the lack of a college football playoff, the lords of the BCS defend their divisive system by noting a playoff would deflate the sport's uniquely gripping regular season. Playoff proponents never want to hear it.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present the living embodiment of a devalued regular season: The Arizona Cardinals.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/stewart_mandel/01/22/cardinals-bcs/index.html