The selection committee is a fake committee. There are 13 committee members. On the final vote 3 had to recuse themselves from voting on the top 8 because they were affiliated with schools in consideration. So in effect only 77% of the committee voted on the final rankings.
They need to go to an 8 team playoff, have the 5 power conference winners automatically qualify and select 3 at large bids.
Indeed. Raise it up to at least eight finalists. Would love to have an extra weekend of college games in December.