re: Hypo: How would committee handle the SEC situation w/ Ole Miss

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There's no real point to playing out of conference games if you don't place any weight on losing one IMO.

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Agree. It's why it's right to say that a conference championship is simply one more feather in a team's resume rather than the end-all, be-all determinant.

As much as people say the committee seems to "move the goalposts" I think much of it is due to dealing with the wildly uneven scheduling in college football.


Most probably agree that an 11-1 Alabama this year has done a bit more than a potential 10-2 Ole Miss but if Alabama had Baylor's schedule and Ole Miss had scheduled and lost to, say, Oklahoma OOC then you want the committee to be able to consider that.





What I do think is that the OP has a good point about conference championship games.

Seems there's hardly a 50% chance the game will actually help a conference team get into the playoffs rather than hurt them but they make a lot of money so they'll likely stay.


ADDED: I don't agree with the idea that you count OOC loses as a conference tiebreaker since the last thing we need is any deterrent to teams scheduling premier OOC match-ups.