Two years ago today, college football’s commissioners formally recommended starting a college football playoff, which we now know as the College Football Playoff. Ugh.

It’s an imperfect process still, but it is also in its infancy and, like other innovations, probably needs to crawl before it walks and fall before it rises. It will and it will and we ought to be patient about all that.

That said, it’s pretty awesome. It’s something we’ve been sort of begging for for years, never mind the relative successes of the BCS that more often than not did pit the two best teams against one another, and we have it. It’s also a little more meaningful here because we also know that West Virginia has a say in the matter, so to speak, with Oliver Luck on the CFP’s pressed-for-time selection committee.

The misconception here is that he’s interested in the 125 teams in the Football bowl Subdivision. No one should be because the number of teams who are even reasonable long shots for a national title is much, much smaller.

Luck said he’d start in the summer with a top 25, which means beginning with 40 or 50 teams. If what he hears is true, he won’t even have to concern himself that many teams.

“The plan right now, I think, is each of the sitting ADs will be assigned to a particular conference and they’re going to be the subject matter experts there,” Luck said. “My understanding is I wouldn’t be assigned the Big 12, but maybe the Pac-12 and I’d become on expert on that and maybe Conference USA.

“Then as we go into discussions, if there is a question about Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, whatever, or someone in C-USA, I’d be the one to address it.”

I’ll say it: There was a time when administrators at WVU wouldn’t have been considered to be a part of that process. Today, it’s sort of a feather in the cap and a reminder of how that was then and this is now. On our state’s 151st birthday, that’s pretty cool. I mean, you could be floundering in the Big East and ready to jump off the New River Gorge Bridge.

I think the CFP will work. It’s hard for a tournament not to work, which is why I’m still mad the King of the Ring no longer exists. But I think it’ll generate unprecedented attention, at least at the outset, and revenue and I think it’s going to be something we talk about for a long time leading up to and then after the event — because there are just enough blemishes, I think, to make that so, but also because it’s going to lend itself to stories and excitement and the things we want.

But that’s sports. It’s competition and it’s debate and it’s coming our way thanks to a proclamation two years ago today.

So close your eyes, make a wish and blow out the candles there … and then, if you can disregard the superstition, share with me your wish for the CFP.

Does that sound familiar? It should.

Three years ago today, I asked you to do something similar for Dana Holgorsen’s approaching “Come after me! I’m a man!” birthday. We were throwing him a pseudo party and gifting him all sorts of things before he started his first season with the Mountaineers. The ideas then are pretty fun to revisit now, but I think we’d have just as much fun bring more gifts to the next party. Again, that was then. This is now.

He turns 43 tomorrow. What do you have in mind this time around?

If you’ve made it this far, well, thanks. This was a light week because we’re wrapping up work on a series of NCAA reform stories we’re rolling out next week. This was a collaboration among the CDM staff and we’re going to cover myriad angles, from what the changes mean in this state and across the country to how they affect those getting ready to pick a college and those who aren’t on a Division I campus. That starts Monday and concludes Friday.

If you thirst for the F Double, let’s stay in the time machine and flash back to 2008.

(Three comments! I think you know what I wished for. Enjoy the weekend!)