If it hadn't been for the Bama/LSU rematch year, we'd still have the BCS imho. That left a crappy taste in the mouths of a lot of CFB fans. That's when the playoff format started. Now the money drives it. Too lucrative not to keep it going.
Problem is there aren't 132 teams that have a shot of winning a playoff. Need two break up FBS into two divisions. One would be the 34 B1G/SEC teams in one and the other 98 in a separate division.
Now that I typed that, I got to thinking about how sad one of those B1G teams looked last night. So maybe even that needs to be rethought.