re: Same Scenario Next Year With a Four Team Playoff...

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Again, it's unrealistic and imbalanced against teams who are not in conferences and will never be forced into conferences. You are persisting with a bad idea that is unrealistic, unfair, imbalanced, and not on the table.

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Bingo, but lets be real here...

The only team in your scenario above to worry about is Notre Dame. The other teams not in a conference won't have to worry about this. LOL

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I am arguing to respect the results on the field

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While advocating a system against usingthe best 4 rresumes to rank the best 4 teams.

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I am against the bias of the eye test. 

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computers

Win your bracket and stop bitching. If you can't win your bracket you aren't the best.

Look at the 2011 polling and it tells you all you need to know about the bull shite of the human polling process. The poll voters will try and manipulate to fit their own agenda. The computers are set at the beginning of the year and don't change. My suggestion is to only use them to rank the conference champions and to pick the top 4 and seed them.

what requiring a team to win a conference does is reduce the pool of teams eligible for a 4 team playoff... (and for the sake of discussion, Notre Dame can have up to 2 losses and other independents must be undefeated)

so instead of picking between 126 teams for a 4 team playoff, it narrows the field to 10 or 11

it gives meaning to the conference games above all others, bc those would be playoffs in their own right.

once the conference champions are determined (bc that's what every team's goal is at the start of the season), then OOC games come into play

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You are arguing for a playoff and disagree with

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Your conference regular season isn't a bracket, for one thing, and yes, a conference champion isn't always the conference's best team. Oklahoma was the best Big 12 team in 2003. Tennessee or Florida was the SEC's best team in 2001. Happens all the time. No matter because your idea is really bad and really unrealistic, and you should come up with something else.

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Look at the 2011 polling and it tells you all you need to know about the bull shite of the human polling process. The poll voters will try and manipulate to fit their own agenda.

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Ok, so you don't know what you're talking about.

Computers, 2011
Bama - 2 2 3 3 3 3
OKSt - 2 2 2 2 3 3

These computers do not count margin of victory, of course, but the voters obviously take that into account when voting, understandably.

Margin of victory, 2011
Bama - 431-106
OKSt - 592-310

Alabama scored more than four times their opponents; Oklahoma State scored less than twice their opponents.

There was no agenda. Alabama was better than Oklahoma State.

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what requiring a team to win a conference does is reduce the pool of teams eligible for a 4 team playoff... (and for the sake of discussion, Notre Dame can have up to 2 losses and other independents must be undefeated)

so instead of picking between 126 teams for a 4 team playoff, it narrows the field to 10 or 11

it gives meaning to the conference games above all others, bc those would be playoffs in their own right.

once the conference champions are determined (bc that's what every team's goal is at the start of the season), then OOC games come into play

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So come up with another idea that is in no way like this. It's a horrible, poorly-though-out idea.

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How are you the best in the country if you aren't the best in your conference?

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Irrevant. If you were to ask, How are you one of the four best in the country if you aren't the best in your conference?, then you'd be onto something.