Do you honestly think the Coaches are going to vote a team that doesn't win the playoff the #1 team? They'll still get the trophy.
Once, the AP didn't give the winner of the BCS their championship, they gave it to a team with one less win as a matter of fact. Of course they could, now if they will is another story but the fact remains that it WAS the BCS trophy and now, it's some second fiddle to a weird torch thing with 0 history. The winner will not be presented with the crystal ball when they win the game! No one will be holding it up on the field anymore! That's reality! It's no longer the trophy...
Since some might be forgetting this, the Coaches' Trophy had to go to the winner of the BCS title game after the game.
It had to. So, of course the winner always got it. Now, it will, as I pointed out, be based on the poll. The poll ain't a playoff!
What RTR91 said. This isn't like it used to be. Do you really think they'd give it to someone who didn't make the 4 team playoff? And even after that, do you think they'd give it to someone who made the playoff but lost? These are the coaches we're talking about, I've never seen the coaches get together and choose an undeserving team. Surely you don't really believe what you just posted.
I've gone over the standings year after year. You do realize some years we could have one undefeated team and a 2 loss team, right? Due to not everyone playing a conference championship, you end up with some teams with
at least one less win. I've pointed out, repeatedly, that no #4 team ever has as many wins as the champion, ever, in BCS history. But, they'll still play. Do I think there will be a lot of pressure to vote the winner #1? Sure, but I think without question sometimes the winner of the playoff won't deserve the trophy and if they get it right, the crystal ball will go to another team.
I believe what I previously posted, because what I previously posted was factual. It's not the playoff trophy! Period, end of story. You can speculate all you want on what might happen, but that's like saying the Heisman trophy is for the Maxwell award. That is factually incorrect, even if the same guy often wins it.
My main point is that it's a further erosion of any tradition. They openly stated they wanted to distance themselves from the BCS. In doing so, they've distanced themselves from tradition, the polls, how things have been done for nearly 100 years. Sorry, but I'm not happy about that. The BCS went to great lengths to make the polls part of what they were doing. The playoffs are going to great lengths not to.