The first college football playoff was a major success. So much so, that many are already looking forward to what lies ahead. Sure, it may be too early in this system to make our conclusion about the playoffs, however, if ratings are any indication, then the playoff system may just be here to stay.

According to ESPN, the Ohio State win over Oregon in the championship brought in an overnight rating of 18.5. This is the highest rating in the history of ESPN, and a 21 percent increase from last season’s championship game.

The new playoff system brought the spark of energy that college football has needed for some time. Not just that, but it also brought into light how boring and limited our 16 years of systematic computer chosen championships have been. Although some may disagree with the final spot of the four, the selection committee was a big-time leap from the computer era.

The human element found a way to include Ohio State. They found a way to figure that one 14-point loss should not define a team. They recognized just how much the team had shown growth. They saw how they had overcome adversity by losing their first and second string quarterbacks. This committee gave Ohio State a chance that they wouldn’t have gotten in previous seasons, and Ohio State proved that they belonged.

Let’s look at it this way. Without the new system, guess who the computers would have picked: Alabama and Florida State.
Neither of those two teams even made it to the final game of this year’s playoffs because Ohio State and Oregon both proved they were better.

How good is the playoff system? The BCS was so terrible that when compared with the four team playoff it just looks laughable while elevating the new system to revered status. However, it may not be just perfect yet.

Competitive teams like TCU and Baylor don’t necessarily feel like this system was “perfect.”
While the conversation will always be to add more to the playoffs, which we obviously can’t continue to do, we must add two to four more spots. This would eliminate the major conference one-loss snubs. The teams on the verge would now be two-loss teams. Two-loss teams don’t have a right to make an argument for why they should be in. They deserve to be out of the playoffs.

However, getting all major conference one-loss teams in would make the system perfect. The first argument is that college athletes’ bodies can’t go through that long of a season. That is not legitimate due to the fact that Division II football has a 16 team playoff.

Finally, the playoff system did what every college football fan wanted.

It gave a larger variety of teams a chance to compete.

This is what we all wanted. While some revisions could definitely do more for the sport, we all should step back and realize the era we are moving into: out of the flawed computer system, and into a glorious era of competitive playoffs.