[benfranklin]

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The vast majority of college football fans want some sort of playoff, and for good reason.

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The rabid minority of college football fans and sports bettors (and sports books) want some kind of playoff. Most fans just want to enjoy the games and have a winning season.

College football got along just fine for a hundred years without the BCS. Both before and after the BCS, few people (except the partisans of that team) agreed on the "national champ", no matter how selected, or they didn't care.

Old traditions like the Big Ten winner playing in the Rose Bowl mean a lot more to the average fan than some mythical coronation as the Big Swinging D!ck of college football. The bowl games used to really mean something to the students and the alumni before they became orgies of corporate sponsorship and an integral part of the NFL farm system. The people with the biggest interest in a national championship are outside fans, not the students and alums. I lived in Nebraska when the Huskers were the national powerhouse. The most vocal fans were Nebraskans who had never gone to the U. They were the ones demanding unending national titles.

Root for the team and hope to go to a bowl game. It's just football.