This is the problem with the playoff committee. The point of a CFB playoff should not be to pick the 4 best resumés as counterintuitive as that sounds. It should be to pick the 4 teams with the highest likelihood of being the best team.
CFB doesn’t play enough games to differentiate 130+ teams. The whole point of conferences is to subdivide teams, determine the best in those sub groups, and have them play each other. There should NEVER be more than one team from a conference in a playoff. Never. You’ve already determined a conference champion. That’s your best team. If it’s not, then you have a dumb way of determining your conference champion.
There’s no earthly reason to include A&M in a playoff. We already know theyre not the best team in the country. Why the öööö would we waste a valuable spot in a playoff to determine what we already know.
Cinci has a higher likelihood of being the best team in the country than anybody not named Bama or ND right now. They haven’t lost. Everybody else has or hasn’t played enough games. Barring an undefeated team from playing for a title is the most un-American thing in sports today. Seriously, is there any other sport in the country that stops an undefeated team from playing for a championship?
1. Bama
2. ND
3. Cinci
4. Clemson (only because Lawrence out in an OT loss).
Loser of ND/Clemson should not be in a playoff. They’re already not the best team in their conference. How could they be the best team in the country?