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Another year, another controversy. And who else but Alabama would be at the center of it?The Crimson Tide made College Football Playoff history on Sunday when it was selected as the , becoming the first team to move into the final field after remaining idle and making the SEC the first conference to have two teams in the final field.MORE: That, of course, sparked debate and in certain parts Red Schoendienst Jersey of , full-blown arguments aboutwhether Ohio State was the more deserving team, if the Buckeyes big wins overshadowed their lo ses and Alabamas lack of a conference championship and if the "more deserving"team should have gotten in over the better team.Then there'sUCF, the last remaining unbeaten team in the FBS, being ranked No. 12 in the country. Perhaps the Knights didnt deserve a spot in the playoff, and they'll get a chance to prove they belong with a Peach Bowl matchup Mike Shannon Jersey against Auburn. But for them to not even make the top 10 leans a tad toward the absurd.Does any of that sound familiar? It should: These are the same controversies that dominated the BCS era. You know, the system that allowed for an all-SEC West national championship between Alabama and LSU in 2011. A system that saw undefeated, non-traditional powers like TCU, Boise State and Cincinnati mi s their shot at a championship. A system that excluded deserving teams like Oregon and Oklahoma State over single lo ses from the regular season.To be sure, there are more deserving teams that get a shot at the championship with the playoff. Thanks to the current four-team format, we dont have to make an argument for Clemson (12-1) or Oklahoma (12-1) or Georgia (12-1).But beyond adding more teams to the equation, the playoff hasnt solved any of the controversy that once plagued the BCS.MORE: You saw it in 2014, when No. 3 TCU was usurped in the final rankings by Ohio State, despite both teams winning in the final week of the regular season and the Horned Frogs claiming a better lo s (against Baylor) than Ohio State(againstVirginia Tech).You saw it in 2015, when a one-lo s Ohio State that boasted three players drafted in the top 10 fo the 2016 NFL Draft and five players drafted in the first round mi sed out over a field-goal lo s to Michigan State.You saw it in 2016, when a two-lo s, Big Ten champion Penn State mi sed the cut in favor of the one-lo s Buckeyes, whom the Nittany Lions had beaten earlier in the season. And don't forget Orlando Cepeda Jersey 13-0 Western Michigan, which received a No. 15 ranking after finishing the regular season undefeated.This year, we have pundits, media members and armchair quarterbacks comparing Alabama and Ohio States strength of schedule, number of ranked wins, the value of conference championships and whether win-lo s record is more important than resume. All that comes to this: Should a one-lo s, non-conference champion beat out a two-lo s conference champion? It did last year, but the stakes are higher now that we're talking about teams in different conferences.And now you have the added degree of a fallible, human playoff committee. Where at least in the BCS era we could point to a finite, mathematic formula to figure out whyteams were ranked at a certain spot, fans are now subject to the whim of a committee that Carlos Martinez Jersey has seemed inconsistent with its own valuesand will continue to evolve as its members complete their terms. Consistency is no longer a given in this brave new world.MORE: So, where does college football go from here? The short answer is nowhere.This system will be in place until the Jedd Gyorko Jersey end of the 2023 season, and many fans of the game are adamant it shouldn'texpandand devalue what is the best regular season inorganized sport. So any arguments about the merits of a six-, eight- or 16-team playoff are moot for now. Plus, fans will always argue for those coveted final spots, regardle s of playoff size.But you can be certain more controversies will follow after this year. You can be certain more people will cry out for a renovated playoff. You can count onmore one-lo s and undefeated teams to mi s the cut,more conference champions to mi s out and, yes, for Alabama and the SEC to one day look on from the outside.Controversy is the name of the game in college football.And replacing BCS with CFP hasn't changed that.