The Players Favor Playoff System

Pretty much everyone other than the Powers That Be would prefer to see College Football decide the National Champion in a playoff format.  CBS's Brett Murphy reports a poll of players from the Top 4 teams of 2011: LSU, Alabama, Ok State, and Stanford.  From these teams, 43% favored a playoff system to just 19% supporting the current bowl system.  The remaining 38% were undecided.  Over half of Oklahoma State players (54%) wanted a playoff system for fairly obvious reasons.

Stanford's Johnson Bademosi provides the money quote:

The BCS [bowls] don't necessarily select the best teams," Bademosi said. "They select the teams that will provide the biggest draws, so a lot of teams like Boise State get left out. That's not fair. 

If I'm on top of a BCS committee, of course I don't want a playoff. Look how much money they're pulling in, how much money they're making for themselves and it's going well. If you create what Division I-AA has, that would be the fairest thing that can happen, but that creates a much longer season.

I would imagine extending that poll to Oregon, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Boise State, and Kansas State would have had an even higher opinion of a playoff system.