re: USA TODAY: "CFB playoff committee got it wrong"

They need to do away with conference title games.
It's an uneven playing field.
Ohio St and USC would have been in if they scheduled cupcakes like Bama did.

Bama's schedule has all the built in advantages, bye before LSU, layup game before Auburn.

We play a top ten team every year for our first game dumbass.

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behind closed doors getting paid by the Networks.

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This.

I'm not even mad. It's more like:

USA Today is wrong.

Per par.

As Nicky said, overall “body of wor” . lol

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If you had to put your life savings on the line, would you take AL or Ohio State?

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Ohio State this year. Bama most year over the past 5 including 2014 when OSU beat Bama.

This year teams are running the ball on Bama up the middle. I have not seen that happen to a nick saban defense for a long time.

OSU proved they can beat good teams this year in Wisconsin and PSU, even in games where they made a lot of mistakes. OSU had a game where they put it all together against a top 15 team and blew them out of the stadium

Bama was outgained by LSU and escaped Miss. St. They didn't look good in either game.

And I would take Bama in most years as I said because defense travels. Their D isn't as good as years past

Quite frankly, the problem I have is choosing a second team from a conference unless a resume is definitively better than the other contenders for the last spot, which Alabama's simply wasn't. No conference stood out as a "dominant" conference.

To me, there's too many teams and too few games to be putting two teams from the same conference or to have rematches within the conference slate, which is also why I hate conference championship games. We don't really get a better understanding of the overall picture of the entire country by rematches within the conference. What did we learn from UGA-Auburn? Either team can win comfortably in their home state. And if Auburn would have won again, they would have proven to be superior but we knew that already. We really solve nothing here especially given how difficult it is to beat a team of equal strength twice in a season.

My vote would be to get rid of conference championship games and make everyone play a 13th game. I would adopt what the SEC/Big 12 do in college basketball with the conference challenge. I would go 9 in-conference games and then play 4 out of conference games where you play an opponent from each of the other P5 conferences. The team you play is determined by the rank in standings from the previous season.

So LSU's schedule next year would be something like:
Conference: Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Ole Miss, Miss St, Texas A&M, Florida, Kentucky, Vandy
OOC: Wake Forest, WVU, Northwestern, Arizona St

I think this would go a long way in more efficiently using the small sample sizes we have and give us a better understanding of where each conference stands as a whole.

Alabama is better than OSU.

Only bothersome thing is making conference championship games mean less to win and more to lose vs not playing in then at all.

As noted in the article if AU and Wisky had sat at home with Bama, they were in. On the flip side OSU playing and winning a conference championship didn't mean anything.

I don’t give a crap if some team is a “conference champion”; I only want the best four teams even if all four of the best teams came out of a single state. The only plus side of the conference champion theory is in guarantees a degree of regional diversity.

If we shift to 8 team then give the P5 champs spots but I do not care if a two loss OSU won its championship or not.