re: A team shouldn't be penalized for losing a conference championship game

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Take Clemson this year, for example. Everyone keeps saying if they lose to Miami they'll be a 2-loss team. While that would be factually correct, they shouldn't be treated as such by the committee when comparing to teams that didn't make their conference's championship game.

The only reason they're in a position to lose a 2nd game at all is because of their excellence in the regular season. Now they might be penalized for doing too well?

It might be better to scrap conference championship games altogether and expand to an 8-team playoff.

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I agree with your premise in theory but if Clemson losses this weekend don't we already know they aren't the best team in the country? They will have lost on a neutral field to another top 10 team.

Everyone keeps saying "best 4 best 4" but they take the best 4 to give themselves the highest chance to get the best 1, which is the real goal. The goal is to make sure the best team in the country is in the field of 4, then has the chance to prove it. Or at least to me.

The same could be said for all the conference title games. If you are THE best team in the country, you win this weekend, simple as that