I love college football as much as the next fan. Saturdays get me riled up as I watch games from different conferences just to see how many different ways any one team can win, week in and week out.

This is especially true when it comes to bowl season. I love watching a high powered offense from the Big 12 square off against a stingy defense from the Southeast Conference. The crowds appear even more electrified in comparison to a regular season game.

Recently, the Football Bowl Subdivision switched from one national title game (which may not have actually pitted the two best teams in the nation) to a four-team playoff. This system should be far more effective in determining who the best team in college football is, right?

Well, not exactly.

In 2016, the Big Ten saw the University of Wisconsin fall to Penn State, giving the Nittany Lions their first conference title since 2008. The team they needed to beat in the Eastern Division to get to this game was the Ohio State University Buckeyes. Guess which of these three teams made it to the playoffs?

This year was very similar, as Ohio State won the Big Ten but was still shut out of the playoffs for another team that never played for their conference title: the University of Alabama.

This system is better than what it was before, but clearly changes need to be made. First, they need to build a bigger field, so expand the bracket to eight teams. Then they need to look at conference champions, especially within the Power Five, even take a closer look at some of the others as well, such as the American Athletic Conference or Conference USA (cough, cough, Buckeyes should have been there, cough).

I'm sorry, but Alabama should not be the national champion. For anyone who says "But they only lost one game, how do they not deserve to be there?", you are correct. However, the one game they lost was the one they could not afford to lose. Why should they have been given a second chance to be champions when they could not even get to the SEC title.

Hmm, this system reminds me another system that needs to be fixed. What is it though? Oh well.