We already knew that the fans say yes; and now that SI polled one player from each of the Division I-A teams, we know that the players say yes too:

Yes: 73.1%
No: 24.4%
Maybe: 2.5%

Notes: Seventeen of the 29 players who said they did not want a playoff were from BCS conference schools… The conference whose players were most against a playoff was the Big 12, with five of 12 voting no… All but one player from an SEC school said they would like a playoff, the highest percentage of any conference.

Quotable: An ACC player’s opinion encapsulated both sides of the debate: “I have mixed feelings just due to the fact that the playoff system would be great at finding out the best team in college football, but the bowls and the BCS are what college football is all about — the arguments and all that. It makes every game that much more important and exciting.” … One Big 12 player whose team played in a bowl game last year said, “I like the bowls. Some years you say it wouldn’t be fair, but realistically, the teams that should make it do. And everyone knows at the beginning of the season that you have to win your games.”