(12-29-2018 01:39 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(12-28-2018 06:02 PM)Attackcoog Wrote:  ...With Auto-bids, every P5 champ will be in and the top G5 champ will be in. So, in what sport do division or conference champs NOT get in. Rank is subjective. Making the right play, at the right time, and winning when its all on the line is literally the definition of a conference champion. There would still be two wildcards to give high ranking deserving teams a SECOND chance to get in after they FAILED to win their conference championship. Nobody is going care if a team is left out because they couldnt even prove they were the best team in their own conference (or even division in some cases)--and then FAILED to convince the even the ice skating judges that they were one of the 2 best teams not automatically in the playoff.

This is a critical point that too many people miss. By definition there can ONLY be one undefeated team per conference (at most), and by definition that team WILL be the champion. So all of this talk of "more deserving at-large teams" really applies to the runners-up, second-place (or worse) teams. Why would those teams deserve more sympathy than the conference champ who lost a couple of upsets early in the season - then won when it mattered most (i.e. the championship game)?

It's hard to justify calling any team best in the nation if we know for a fact they aren't even the best in their own conference... isn't their conference in the nation?

The fly in the ointment is the 3 or 4 OOC games that allow for a team with no or only 1 conference loss to have a worse record overall than the runner up. Of course the logic at that point should be that if their champ had that many OOC losses then why should they be considered for the CFP anyway. In a champs only it wouldn't matter.