Coaches Trophy awarded to the BCS National Champion (pictured). All 124 teams ranked at the end of the article. Jimbo Fisher is right in that we need to change how we pick teams, but humans may not be the best method. The upcoming four team playoff will haul in loads of money and additional popularity for college football, but it could easily open the door wide open for further prejudice in the sport. The four teams for the new playoff to begin in 2014 are to be picked by a selection committee. As long as qualifiers for a playoff are determined by pre-made contracts and the "eye" test done by people, it is a system of prejudice to decide playoff and bowl teams. That is not to say that the BCS computers need brought back in 2014. The computers are/were equally corrupt due to the secrecy and over calculation that leads to some very strange rankings. A reasonable person realizes that a transparent mathematical system is the only fair way to rank teams in t...
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