The College Football Playoff Chose Outrage

College football fans are angry on the first Sunday in December, just as they’ve been angry on this Sunday in most years of the College Football Playoff era, and just as they were angry on this Sunday in the 16 years of the BCS format. The talking points arrive anew each winter: Alabama got lucky a season after they got screwed, a season after they got lucky before that. The power brokers are biased against Notre Dame, except for the years when they’re biased for Notre Dame. Angry December Sundays are a feature of college football, not a bug. This is less a coherent sport than a collection of fiefdoms fueled by regional outrage. And in its current iteration, a 14-member committee meets every year in a Dallas hotel conference room to give an illusion of fairness to a sport built on resentment and rage.