“Who’s in?”

For four months, that’s all we’ve heard from the College Football Playofffs. But the selection of the four-team field for the first college football championship tournament never was about that.

The question should have been, Who’s out?

Because four seats at the table was never going to be enough in a world where the number of so-called power conferences is five. Eight was always going to be the right number, and this first step in the right direction wasn’t quite big enough.