Basketball's tourney includes 65 teams... that's nearly half of all the D-I schools out there... playoff advocates in football are not pushing for a 65 team field (which would be incredibly difficult)... if you simply had a small 4 or 8-team playoff field, you would arguably include only the primary contenders for the national championship, which would include most likely all of the unbeatens and the one-loss teams... thus maintaining the importance of having a near-perfect regular season to merely qualify for the playoffs... the polls would still play a role, just a role in determining the playoff field, and not the actual championship... that is a role I am more willing to live with...

With such a system, you could rotate the semifinals and finals to the different BCS bowls, and still maintain the pageantry of all the other insignificant bowls outside of the playoff picture...

In such a system, OSU, UF, Michigan, Louisville, and perhaps even Boise State, would all get a chance, and the debate would shift away from screwing over a high level team to a less significant debate about a bubble team like a 2-loss team making the playoffs...