both college football and nascar are mirror images of each other in a way. Both were sports built on regional following, rivalries and fanbases. College football napalming its regional conferences where pretty much every single game mattered in a regular season to chase the oh so sweet network tv money of a 12 team playoff, is almost a verbatim script to what nascar did with axing it's regular season points championship in pursuit of whatever it is that is used to crown a champion now. I'd say the college football playoff while cool to see the first round home games at home, leaves the sport a little more hollow without its regional rivalries and traditions. Plus it opens up incessant bitching from the fan base as most folks are already unhappy with how the playoff is playing out in its first year, which is something nascar fans (myself included) have been doing for 20 years now.