Oct 16, 2026 · 13 min · 4 segments
Josh Innes looks at the proposed format for the new 24 team college football playoff. How will teams be determined? Will computers play a major role? Will it be similar to the NCAA Basketball…
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So my question was, who will be the four teams in this situation? Because the way it would set up is you would get four Power Four automatic bids, and I guess those would be the four highest ranked teams out of this committee, I would imagine, is what that's going to come down to.

So then how do you determine those four teams that are the best four teams? What I would prefer is to eliminate some of the bullshit in this.

And you start looking at all that, and you go, "Well, do you mean to tell me that a shitty five-loss team from the ACC should get an automatic bid?" You know, and I guess that answer should be no.

So I guess maybe I'm talking myself out of my argument, but I don't like that everything is being determined by committees because people have biases.

So, like, at least in college basketball, you know that, like, hey, if you win your conference tournament, you get an automatic bid.

Now, again, there's 70-something teams in there now, so it's not as big of a deal, but there's, like, 30-something automatic bids in the NCAA basketball tournament.

See, I'd like to just live in a world where we eliminate people, and we go back to using computers for most of this, because a computer doesn't have a bias, except for Gypsy, because she loves me.

And people can be fucking morons, and as we've learned from reading the internet over the last decade, most people have biases and are stupid.

Now, you could also argue that the computer may not know that in one week, your second-best player or your quarterback got hurt in a game.

So my question was, who will be the four teams in this situation? Because the way it would set up is you would get four Power Four automatic bids, and I guess those would be the four highest ranked teams out of this committee, I would imagine, is what that's going to come down to.

So then how do you determine those four teams that are the best four teams? What I would prefer is to eliminate some of the bullshit in this.

And you start looking at all that, and you go, "Well, do you mean to tell me that a shitty five-loss team from the ACC should get an automatic bid?" You know, and I guess that answer should be no.

So I guess maybe I'm talking myself out of my argument, but I don't like that everything is being determined by committees because people have biases.

So, like, at least in college basketball, you know that, like, hey, if you win your conference tournament, you get an automatic bid.

Now, again, there's 70-something teams in there now, so it's not as big of a deal, but there's, like, 30-something automatic bids in the NCAA basketball tournament.

See, I'd like to just live in a world where we eliminate people, and we go back to using computers for most of this, because a computer doesn't have a bias, except for Gypsy, because she loves me.

And people can be fucking morons, and as we've learned from reading the internet over the last decade, most people have biases and are stupid.

Now, you could also argue that the computer may not know that in one week, your second-best player or your quarterback got hurt in a game.
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