And the New Name of the College Football Playoff Will be--the College Football Playoffs?

Next season will mark the end of the BCS and usher in a new era for college football--a small playoff system involving the top four teams in the nation. As with anything that denotes something as big as this, a name must be chosen. A good name. A cool name. A name that will look good on t-shirts, be awesome in commercials  and make advertisers and fans alike salivate for more.

So how about we call the college football playoffs the College Football Playoffs (you see how I just capitalized each word there...crazy...)?

The BCS was a cool name all be it a flawed concept. It had a bit of a ring to it; it rolled off the tongue pretty easy. The full name--Bowl Championship Series--seemed to marry the old system with the desire of the new pretty well too (in theory at least).

It wasn't bad.

But College Football Playoffs? Really?

To be honest--I don't hate it. I like BCS better than CFP, but in time CFP will sound as natural as BCS does. I would have thought they could come up with something better (if Alabama wins again they might as well name the trophy the Nick Saban Trophy).

I'm going to assume that they likely had some crazy stuff thought up, but since calling it the Saban Lottery sounded dorky they opted to do what my coaches have always told me to do--keep it simple stupid.

The important thing is that in two years we will have the closest thing we can possibly have to a true champion in college football.

Then in two years and a day the No. 5 team in the nation will say it should have been them since they smashed the team that lost in the finals and would have at least been better competition for the winner, but was excluded by the selection committee because of an early loss to James Madison (who they would have killed if they had started their new quarterback instead of that idiot that was injured late in the loss. They won every other game, many over top ranked teams!).

And the debated for expanding the field to 8 begins...