2. CFPC - do they actually watch the games, and what impact will an expanded CFP make on the CFPC's ability to properly pick the appropriate teams and seeds?
Now this is the real issue here, and Matt Hayes buried the lede. Sark admits he stopped voting in the polls because he doesn't have time to watch the games and it's not fair (good for him). But he goes on to throw the CFPC under the bus.
The committee doesn’t have the bandwidth to watch that many games,” Sarkisian said. “They see the media and coaches polls, and they copy them. You’ve got a 12-team playoff, and that means there are at least 30 teams that impact it. Now all of a sudden, you want to go to 24? Now the polls become an even greater factor, because now you’re asking (the committee) to watch 40 teams a week — if not 50.
Now CFP Executive Director Rich Clark denied this and assured us that OF COURSE THEY WATCH ALL THE GAMES. But we here at CIS discussed this ad nauseam last season and realized that they cannot not possibly watch all the games considering they also have FT jobs, and that ESPN feeds them highlights of the games, which they all watch together while eating snacks. Seriously.