Originally Posted by
rockymtn devil
The individual matchups are better, but the system isn't. Under the old system, consider this scenario:
USC beats Ohio State
LSU beats Virginia Tech
Oklahoma beats Georgia
West Virginia beats Missouri
Here you would have 6 two loss teams (and maybe a 7th floating around in Kansas, who actually could be a 1-loss team), four of which won major bowl games against highly touted teams. Who wins the national title? USC, LSU, OU, and WVU (and maybe Kansas if they are 12-1) all have solid claims and tragic flaws.
At least in the current system we get a 1-2 game. It may not be the game you wanted, but it's the game that the voters and computers, taking the entire season into account, gave us. That's better than the cluster the old system would've created.