Season's end as it was meant to be

— -- Imagine for a terrifying moment a world in which the first College Football Playoff didn't exist. In other words, imagine refrigerators with ice cube trays, Roger Moore as Bond and cigarettes on planes.

There are the good ol' days, and then there are the Bowl Championship Series days. If the BCS already seems as antiquated as Beliebers, that's because it is. The BCS is so 2013. I couldn't wait to unfollow it.

If not for the four-team playoff -- and all the wonderful noise it created, like beer cans strung to the bride and groom's getaway car -- we would be counting down the minutes to an Alabama vs. Florida State BCS championship game. Yes, the two teams that lost in the semifinals.