it's not about conferences, it's about the teams

people are silly if they try to tie Baylor and TCU being left out to the Big XII.

conference championships are one of the grading criteria, but had one of those two teams gone undefeated, they would undoubtedly be in. A conference championship game had nothing to do with it (both teams played this weekend anyway)

and to talk about the conference championships being an extra game, i'd just take away the weakest game the teams with an extra game played. For Florida State, that would be the Citadel, Alabama, Western Carolina; Oregon, South Dakota; Ohio State, Kent State

every team in the playoff discussion should have been looked at as an independent