re: Hypothetical: Oklahoma had dropped a 2nd game during the season. Who is #4

What the committee has said indicates Georgia. But what they say about #5 vs #6 is very different from what they would have said about #4 vs #5. It's free for them to say that Georgia is ahead of Oregon (or vice versa) when the two spots have no bearing on anything--neither were going to the playoffs and both were going to their conferences' premier bowls no matter which number they were given.

I honestly think they would have caved to optics and politics and put conference champion Oregon at #4. I kinda think they did that when they put us at #4 in the first place, and I definitely think they would have done it had the choice been Oregon or Georgia. People had enough of a meltdown in 2017 when 11-1 Alabama went over 11-2 Big Ten Champion Ohio State. Imagine the meltdown when the same thing happens but the SEC team has a second loss.