The BCS vs. a Playoff in NCAA football part 2

In an ideal world a college football playoff would be the perfect way to crown an undisputed champion every year with little or no complaint from anyone feeling snubbed. However that would require completely eliminating the prevailing bowl system that has been in place for decades and that is no easy feat. The most glaring obstacle in generating a playoff is that the bowl committees would have to approve this idea which for the most part wouldn't serve their interests as right now they each generate millions upon millions of dollars every year without fail. For example one idea would be to restructure the existing bowls into a playoff bracket where you could theoretically have the Fiesta, Orange, Cotton and Gator bowls serving as the quarterfinal games while the Rose and Sugar Bowls serving as semi-final games. The problem here is that you are making some bowls less important than others. Take the Fiesta Bowl for example which has been the BCS National Championship game multiple times, how is that bowl committee going to accept their game becoming an afterthought first-round matchup and forfeit the prominent national attention it currently receives?

The point I am trying to make here is that to have a playoff one has to convince the bowls to sacrifice untold millions in the name of fairness. These people are all business and fairness isn't their number 1 priority, making money is. The only realistic way we can have a playoff in college football is for congress to intervene and force the change. I believe that starts an dangerous precedent for government involvement in an aspect of our culture that has done all it can to avoid it. Now while government intervention in college football isn't anything new (Richard Nixon decided the winner of the 1969 NCAA title when voting came to a stand-still) it is an idea that many people, myself included, are afraid because once that step is taken will there be anything left in sports free from congressional legislature? This is the step that has to be taken and everyone should know the consequences of what that action might entail. Also we haven't even worried about the other 25-30 odd bowl games that will be left out of a playoff if they try to keep them around. When will they be played and how relevant will they really be? (Really how many people ever care about the NIT in college basketball?)