(01-02-2018 03:13 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  My question has always been--why are we using a selection committee when we don't need to? We spend an entire season determining the best team in each FBS conference. If you truly want to keep the regular season relevant--then don't devalue a conference championship.

There's an obvious problem there: If conference champs get in automatically, then that makes OOC matchups literally meaningless. You can go 0-3 or 0-4 OOC, so long as you win all your conference games, you're good as gold.

What your system would do is elevate the importance of conference games while totally devaluing OOC games. This is a bad idea, because if anything, from a national POV, it is OOC games that tell us more about the 'worthiness' of a team than conference games.

With the current system, regular season games of all types are pure platinum. No team has ever made the playoffs with more than one loss.

In contrast, in other sports like the NFL, NBA, college hoops, etc. you can lose regular season games left and right and still make the playoffs. IIRC, the Tennessee Titans were 8-7 going in to their last game, and they made the playoffs anyway.

So for better or worse, the current college football system clearly does value regular season games moreso than any other major sport.