I haven't figure out why we can't have Bowls as well as a playoff system. Why can't the NCAA adopt something like this...
Continue to have the lesser bowl games such as the "GoDaddy.com Bowl", "Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl" and the "Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl" for teams that have the 6 wins needed, but obviously don't belong in a playoff.
Now, take the bigger bowl games... ex. Cotton Bowl, Gator, Chick-Fil-A, Capital One, Sugar, Rose, Orange, Fiesta, and the National Championship game, and make a damn playoff for the top 8 teams, or top 16 teams, or however many they want. Makes sense to me, why don't any of the guys making the decisions see it this way!?