We are hours away from college football's first Sunday in which teams are arranged onto a tournament bracket and revealed to the public. No, I will not call it Selection Sunday. No, I will not capitalize it. That name is taken.College football's playoff, as substandard as it is, does not warrant equivalence with the NCAA Tournament contested by basketball teams.MORE: | |Though my primary beat has been college basketball Jake Fraley Jersey over the past quarter-century, I say this with no particular territorial joy. College football has been a part of my life since I was 8 years old and my very Irish-Catholic family gathered at my grandfather's house to watch Notre Dame get pummeled by Purdue. I'm fairly certain not everyone planned on Leroy Keyes and Mike Phipps wrecking the Fighting Irish, but that's how it turned out.During three decades as a sportswriter, I covered 14 college football seasons, from Penn State during the mid-'80s glory years to the Southeastern Conference in the 1990s to a single season on the Cincinnati Bearcats before most anyone in the city cared. I watched closely as Jay Bruce Jersey the sport declined in relevance only to rally into the national spectacle we see today.ESPN helped with that, as haveCBS's weekly national telecasts of the Southeastern Conference. The Bowl Championship Series offered more of a boostthan many are willing to acknowledge, as it gave the game at least a semblance of a real title.The College Football Playoff will be bigger still, because the champion will be doubly genuine.MORE: It's sad, though, to see college football continue its devotion to being half-pregnant, as well as feeding its addiction to baloney.It is obvious, as the season's final weekend commences, that including four teams in the CFP is inadequate. There will be more than four worthy teams. As it stands now, there are at least six. If results of the various conference championship games move in particular directions, that number could expand to 10 or more.The folks in college football do not want a tournament in which conference champions automatically are included for a simple reason: There would be no baloney. College football moved along arguing for a century Gerson Bautista Jersey about whether there even be a playoff, and now that it has one there is fear the game's popularity would decline if the arguments abated.Have you noticed how the teams have bounced around in the weekly rankings released by the CFP committee? Florida State is practically a toy for the committee's amusement. The Seminoles' results haven't deviated throughout the six weeks the teams were ranked. They won every single time. But their ranking changed from No. 2 the first two weeks to No. 3 over the next three and finally to No. 4 last Tuesday.TCU went from out of the rankings to fourth to fifth to third, mostly as it maneuvered through mid- and lower-level Big 12 teams, the one exception being its Nov. 8 home victoryover Kansas State. The Horned Frogs moved into the No. 4 spot after that one, then fell to fifth after a close win over Kansas, then were promoted to No. 3 above unbeaten FSU because they handled Texas, a team that was flirting with .500.It's a hustle. The CFP folks might as well be standing on a Times Square street corner playing Three-Card Monte. The Seminoles are here. No, they're over there! Where will they land?This is why I wrote recently about what a tragedy it would be Austin Adams Jersey if the NCAA men's basketball committee were to agree to performa weekly tap-dance program about its deliberations. Some contend it would provide more transparency and promote interest. If it's anything like the college football flim-flam, though, college hoops needs no part of it.Yes, sometimes the NCAA Tournament selection committee gets it wrong. Its 2014 bracket might have looked better if someone had thrown darts at a board and placed the teams that way. (UMa s a 6 seed? Stuffing five legit title contenders in the Midwest Region?)In the end, though, the tournament is structured ideally and it's the unpredictability of the games that fuels interest.College football may or may not get the four best into its first playoff Sam Tuivailala Jersey field. But it won't get all the deserving teams. It can dre s up the selections into whatever sort of television show its wants to emulate, but it can't escape that reality.