Most kids are greedy. I was greedy as a child, and I’m sure you were too. “He got more” or “That’s not enough” were a few of my favorite phrases when it came to cookies or candy. Kids always want more, and when they don’t get their way, your ears will pay the price.

This is a good way to describe the college football playoff situation. For years, people complained about the flawed BCS system and how it didn’t accurately choose a champion. An early-season loss ended the hope of winning a championship. Nearly every college football fan had a solution, but no one was interested in listening to one another.

Well, the football gods finally relented and created the College Football Playoff. An educated committee will select four elite teams to compete for a new trophy. The 13 bright minds on the committee will use strength of schedule and other factors to decide who will participate. 

Finally, a justified team will be crowned college football’s best. Four teams ought to settle things and make the masses happy, right?

Wrong.

Yes, fans were happy that the leaders of college football finally came to their senses and created a playoff system, but fans also had a lot of questions.

Who’s in the committee? How do we make sure that the committee isn’t corrupt? But most importantly, why are there only four teams?

The fans’ concerns were valid, which is why the playoff committee will needs to expand the playoff to eight teams in the near future. Four teams are simply not enough. Yes, it’s a step up from the previous system, but having just four teams doesn’t ensure that you’ll have the best team. In a hypothetical season of five teams with undefeated or identical records, how can the committee decide one team makes it in and another doesn’t?

If eight teams are used, five of the teams would come from the championship games of each of the Power 5 conferences (SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12 and PAC-12). That rewards the champion teams for all their hard work. It also adds meaning to each championship game besides just a trophy and a few coaches’ bonuses.  

The committee will choose the remaining three teams at-large. It can be a team who competed in one of the championship games or it can be a team from a non-Power 5 conference that had a strong schedule and could create a buzz in the playoff. It’s up to the committee to make the decision.

With eight teams, there is an increased sense of excitement. Yes, the last month of college football has been exciting because any loss could cost a team the opportunity to play in the playoff. There are even more scenarios that can play out. More spots create more opportunities for more teams, meaning that even more games are important because of the impact those games could have.

This would be the closest college football can get to a March Madness feel. More upsets could happen, especially if a non-Power 5 team upsets an SEC team or an ACC team that never seems to lose. The eventual champion would have to beat two teams fighting for a chance to be named the nation’s best team — how much more excitement can you get?

Eight teams also ensures that the six traditional bowl games — the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl and Peach Bowl — will be played with meaning each year and it creates the possibility of adding two more bowl games into the tradition. With all of those bowls come the additional revenues from TV, advertising, food and drink sales and ticket sales, something that we all know schools and conferences are eager to accept.

So it makes sense that there should be eight teams in the College Football Playoff, just as it made sense to move into a playoff system. Many experts believe that after a few years, the playoff will be expanded to an eight-team playoff, but why wait? Act now.

But that won’t be enough. By that time, the fans will be stomping and yelling again, because they’ll want a 16-team bracket.

Michal is a sophomore in Media. He can be reached at [email protected] and on Twitter

@mdwojak94.