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Also, even if you think Auburn didn't deserve a shot at the title due to their OOC scheduling, (pretty ridiculous IMO telling the players who worked hard through spring ball and summer conditioning that they should be eliminated before the season started due to something their athletic director did 5 years ago), what about Utah? There was literally nothing they could do short of scheduling USC that would have gotten them in the title game that year. If USC didn't want to play them, it wouldn't matter if they scheduled 3 tough OOC opponents and beat everyone on their schedule by 40 points. They just had no shot. That's a broken system and it needs to be fixed.

I hate the idea of a huge college basketball-esque playoff as much as anyone and I'd rather go back to the old bowl system and not even have a championship than have as many as 16 teams playing. But if the players on the field go undefeated when playing at least a reasonable schedule (which even Boise did), they deserve a shot at the national title, period. Otherwise, just make a FMS between the FBS and FCS that crowns its own champion. If they have to play a quarterfinal against the Gators in the Swamp in late November, fine, at least they had a chance. Just don't eliminate them before the season starts.