College tradition is antiquated bullshit and nothing but old men yelling at clouds. Sorry, that junk is history. Embrace it. You have plenty of pointless scrimmages they label as bowls you can watch. And your statement makes absolutely no sense and the very first year of the 12 team format proved it. In this 4 team format, Georgia, Oregon, Clemson, Arizona State are your 4 p4 champs. All 4 of those teams didn't even win a game last playoffs. Yet if we kept that format, we probably would have seen Georgia vs Oregon in the title game. Both of those teams got whipped last playoffs. Now go back down through the years and see how many really good teams were left out because only 4 made it. Texas would have made the playoffs 11 times if we had a playoff format this entire time since the BCS era. We had some very good teams in that time in the 2000s I'd have loved to see them actually prove it on the field instead of getting left out completely. Had we had a playoffs in 2008, we most likely have another title. And how many national champions become different teams? This idea that every single playoff game is going to be an instant classic and when it isn't, y'all tell this format sucks and let's go back to old formats.