Throw this idea at the wall…

— Editor’s note: Yet another controversial year in determining the four teams who will play for the national championship of the Football Bowl Subdivision is at hand. We revisit a column written in December 2011 that suggested a possible way to construct a true playoff based on rankings and utilizing the existing bowl games. It’s not unlike the Football Championship Subdivision in which Eastern Washington plays.)

Roos Field sat in the evening chill, dark but silhouetted by the parking lot lights last Friday night prior to Eastern Washington University’s basketball game with Pacific Lutheran.

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