Are you ready for the playoffs?

I know it is only June but the new College Football Playoffs are a little more than 200 days away.
The semifinals will be held on Jan. 1, 2015 at the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl.
The new championship will be held at Jerry’s World in North Texas on Jan. 12.
The BCS era has been buried with the SEC winning seven consecutive national titles.
The new system will not use polls or computer rankings to select participants.
A 13-member committee will choose the four teams for the playoff based on their performance during the regular season, including, strength of schedule, head-to-head results, championships won, and other factors.
Condoleezza Rice, former United States Secretary of State, drew the attention of the football world when she was selected to the committee.
I like the idea of the best teams in college football to doing battle on the field rather than through formulas.
As the collegefootballplayoff’s web site states: Every Game Counts.
“The new playoff preseves the excitement and significance of college football’s unique regular season where every game counts.”
But there will be teams who will complain that they deserve to be among the four but are on the outside looking in.
Even if the College Football Playoff is expanded to eight teams down the line, that ninth team will have a gripe.
It does bring the bowls back into prominence as the Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Chick-fil-A Bowl and Fiesta Bowl will all play host to playoff games over the next three years.
New Year’s will be like it used to be with two semifinals and four other premier bowls played on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day
After the top four teams are picked, the committee will also rank the next group for the other major bowls played those two days - this year that will be the Orange, Fiesta, Cotton and Atlanta bowls.
So who will be the four teams selected for the playoffs?
4. Oklahoma Sooners (11-1; Big 12 Champ)
3. Michigan State (12-1; Big Ten Champ)
2. Florida State (13-0; ACC Champ)
1. Alabama (13-0; SEC Champ)
Or what about:
No 1. Florida State, No. 2. Oregon, No. 3. Alabama and No. 4. Ohio State.
Auburn and LSU along with Georgia and South Carolina could play a part in Alabama’s run to the title game.
Michigan State and Ohio State will battle for the chance for a playoff spot.
Oklahoma and Oregon could fall short somewhere along the way too.
Nebraska could spoil the Sooners season, while UCLA may pop the Ducks’ balloon.
Can FSU go undefeated or will Jameis Winston and the Seminoles stumble against one their in-state rivals?
In defense of the now -extinct BCS the top two teams have played each other 15 times in 15 years by BCS measurements and 12 times in the last 15 according to the AP poll -- including the last nine years in a row.
So now we will see how well the new playoffs work. All the other Division I sports compete for a title in a playoff format - now it is football’s turn.
This should be fun.
If your team doesn’t make the final four cut, they could very well play a spoiler role.
Geaux Tigers, Beat Bama.