re: Espn: Sizing up the SEC resumes

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I highly doubt the committee would put Baylor in over Saban and Bama, they'd instantly lose credibility.

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This year the top ranked conference champs were FSU, Auburn, Michigan State, Baylor, UCF, and Stanford.

The four conference champs ranked highest of those were FSU, Auburn, MSU, and Stanford (although Baylor and UCF only had one loss for the year Stanford had a win against a top ten team and two more against top 15 teams). Popular programs left out will create controversy by people who don't like those results but the defense against that is to make more clear the committee's criteria for admission.

Right now it sounds like the committee will heavily emphasize winning your conference as a criteria for entering the four team field. If there are to be specific boundaries for making exceptions for either lower ranked teams with better records or higher ranked teams who did not win their conference I hope the committee will make precisely clear what those will be so the playoff doesn't rapidly become a joke.