Jackson Free Press

I understand that people want the four best teams to make the new college football playoffs system next season. Nobody wants to watch a team that doesn't deserve a spot in the top four getting to play over a deserving team.

What I don't understand is how people like Pat Dye and David Pollack think a woman couldn't pick the top four teams next year. More specifically, that Condoleezza Rice, who is helping make the selection on the new College Football Playoff Committee, couldn't pick the top four teams.

Rice was leaked as one of the names that will be part of the new 12- to 18-person committee. College football should be applauded for making such an out-of-the-box choice.

My wife could be on the committee and tell you who the top four teams are in the country. Not because she wants to know, but because she lives with me. She could tell you who the four best teams are, because she sees all the top teams each week (whether she wants to or not). She can look up at the TV and tell you who is playing just by seeing the uniforms.

If my wife can learn this much while doing housework, eating, playing with the baby and more, how much can Rice learn when she puts her mind to learning about football?

I'm pretty sure she will be well prepared when she steps into the room. Rice is a former secretary of state, for goodness sakes. She can handle Russia, China and the Middle East, but not Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, Oregon and Florida State? That is crazy talk.

Maybe to knuckle draggers like Pollack and Dye, a woman's place is nowhere near football decisions, but times have changed. It might even shock either man to know that women actually play football in this day and age.

I am glad college football made such a bold choice, and I hope the sport embraces that choice instead of ridiculing it.