Despite the bitching and moaning, this format is wayyyy better than 2 or even 4 teams.
For sure. Definitely better to have more teams in.
End of season games like Oregon vs. Penn St and Texas vs. Georgia that would normally be gigantic games instead became essentially meaningless so we could watch some team that everyone knew was garbage get blown out by 5 touchdowns. Yay.
First round byes are essentially meaningless?
I mean, kinda of. I think "Bye week" might have put up a better fight againsit Oregon than SMU put up against Penn St. That game which normally would have been borderline Super Bowl atmosphere was just a friendly contest to see who got to have fun boatracing an out of place team this week. Completely different atmosphere.
College football was the one sport that had it right. It was like the playoffs were all season long. Now teams can slip up multiple times, do absolutely nothing impressive, the best games against the best teams mean little since both teams are getting in anyway, etc. Michigan has a down year but rallies to wreck Ohio State's championship hopes? Amazing! Except, nevermind, it was meaningless to those championship hopes.
All of the biggest regular season and historic regular season matchups down the drain so we can watch this dreck. It's so much worse.
Where teams should be ranked/seeded is a popular topic here. Has been for 25 years. Not sure what is sad about that. Discussing this type of thing is pretty much what we do here.
I'm rooting for Clemson because as a Texas A&M alum, I hate texas university. 
