[Tell It Right]

My problem is the feature creep (what we in the software industry call it when the project managers/functional users keep asking for new features on top of the original design). Basically we're not satisfied in picking a college football champion.

Remember when we all fussed about the AP poll sometimes being wrong, so that led to the League of Bowls and BCS? The idea being that if the #1 and #2 teams play each other in the end, we'd know who the real champion is. The odds of the best team being ranked #3 or #4 was so extremely low it wasn't worth arguing for them to have a chance to prove themselves (if the goal is still to find out who the #1 team is). So we were satisfied with that for a while.

Then Bama fatigue set in -- everybody outside the state of Alabama wondered if someone else could beat Bama and be the #1 team. So it was expanded to a 4-team playoff. The idea being that maybe the best team had been ranked #3 all along. Nobody really believed that, but that's what was touted as an excuse for more feature creep (having to change the system to have new features).

Are FSU fans now saying they're the true best team? Really? If not, then complaining about not being in the playoffs is more feature creep -- making the playoffs have a goal besides determining the true champion. And the CFP is going to a 12-team format next year anyway; will team #13 inevitably complain that they're the real champion?

[dfwgator]

My problem is the feature creep (what we in the software industry call it when the project managers/functional users keep asking for new features on top of the original design).

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[stateofit]

Good points, football isn’t easy and greater than dozen games is already too long for college. Even with the three give me’s early in the season