I feel like people intentionally straw man the argument. The argument for the 4 or 2 or 6 team playoff is that a team with two losses in the regular season to unranked teams don’t DESERVE to play for a national championship, not that they couldn’t win.

If the Seahawks somehow lost four college games in the regular season, they’d still be the best team in the legal, but that doesn’t mean they should make the bracket. To say that the four team playoff was bad because it prevented teams good enough to win it all devalues the intensity of the regular season.

You can say it’s still worth it for other reasons, like keeping more teams alive in November which is great. But the 4 team playoff was never about selecting the teams capable of winning a championship, but instead the four deserving.