- Or if it has to be 4, go back to drastically more transparent and objective BCS ranking to pick the 4.
- Or if it has to be a committee let each P5 conference pick two members of its own and each non P5 pick one member of its own.
Either of those make the selection process less of an arbitrary mess than it is now. People used to joke about a few idiots being on the Harris Poll but even just exclusively using the Harris Poll would be an improvement. The Harris Poll is basically just a much larger version of the CFP committee with less chance of overt favoritism being spread out over many more voters.
If they do have at large births in an 8 team setup like yours, and they use anything but something similar to the old BCS ranking to pick them, they're asking for trouble.