The sports genius’ are going to have to explain why the Big 10 Champion was left out of the playoff while the SEC gets 2 selections. OSU and WI or even PSU could win the whole thing if given the chance. What a joke.
Simplest solution to all this is to have the Power Five Conference Champions. Take the top two seeds and give them a bye.
Then take the best Non Power Five team, and have them play the best at-large Power Five team, so that a team like UCF gets a shot.
So in this case you’d have:
OU and Clemson as the Bye teams.
Georgia vs USC
Ohio State vs (Alabama/UCF winner)
The thing I like is that it requires a team that doesn’t play in a conference championship game, like Alabama, to play an extra game to get into the tournament.