Every single national championship (include tonight for my Texas Longhorns) is a freakin' mythical one. It is a ridiculous game between 2 subjectively selected beauty contest winners. 1 game does not make a playoff, so no team ever wins it on the field. It is the sorry BS that is the system right now.
IMHO it is only 50-50 that both USC and Texas would win out to meet in the championship game if there was an 8 or more team playoff. Only 2 of the favorites in the last 7 mythical nat'l championship game have won, which tells us all we need to know about the accuracy of the polls. If they can predict the winner of a single game only 2 out of 7 tries, then odds are that they are usually going to screw up assessing who are the 2 best teams each year.
The system is a joke, and tonight's mythical nat'l championship is just as phony as all the previous ones. Until there is a playoff, its all just figure skating.
That about sums it up.
I'd like to see a complete overhaul, integrating the traditional bowls into an 8-team playoff system.