re: Not in a conference championship game, no chance for the NCG!

You can't have a rule against teams not winning there conference. For instance, assume Oklahoma is undefeated, LSU only loses one game to Alabama who lost a close game OOC and to a good Georgia team. LSU is the only one loss team and is clearly deserving of the two spot, but isn't playing in the SECCG because they lost the head to head tiebreaker with a 2 loss Bama team. In that situation, you are excluding the clear second best team simply because of the conference's method of determining a champion. The BCS and conferences
are mutually exclusive and cannot be judged against one another.