[lastchance]

This is true.

You're not cheapening anything with a 4 team playoff, you're making sure that the #2 team in the country gets in, like SC 2 years ago. They deserved to play for the title, Auburn deserved to play for the title.

A 4 team playoff allows all of that to happen, while adding just one game, and two teams. The #4 team in the country is not going to be that much worse than the #2 team. There's not going to be a Syracuse that gets hot, or a Louisville or anything else.

There's just going to be undefeated and one-loss teams, maybe two-loss at most.

4-team playoff is definitely the way to go, IMHO. The simplest easiest to implement system that almost assures that the #2, and #3 team in the country get to play for the title, and I think that makes a lot of sense.

Having conflict over the #4 team is a lot better than conflict over the #2 team.