>Like if you're a 5 star right now
>and you have your eye on the league, why would you go anywhere
>but Ohio State or Alabama?

and there's a lot more that goes into choosing a school than simply being able to compete in the playoffs.

I get what you're saying overall though and it definitely does makes sense in theory...but not in application IMO.

the have-not's of cfb are more than a free playoff ticket away from asserting or reasserting themselves as national powers.

take a team like USC for example. they could be a superpower within 1-2 years but they're not willing to do what it takes to compete at that level. their road to the playoffs is about as easy as it gets under the current structure but they still can't get it done. their entire conference is a mess and the best players on the west coast are heading to other regions to play football for a slew of reasons.

Texas is losing their top talent to OSU and SEC schools. This would've been unheard of 15 years ago. Is giving a 3 loss texas team a free ride into the playoffs (only to get their asses kicked) really the solution to this problem? It just feels like applying a band aid to a gunshot wound.

Also while it may help to give a free ride to some of the the lesser successful teams into the dance...you now have pretty much zero chance that bama/osu/clemson will ever miss a playoff spot. That seems really unproductive if the goal is bring back a little bit more parity to the game. Also it's just fucking boring.