“Mostly agree, however it should not be automatic for a 10-3 conference champion, maybe even an 11-2 if there are more undefeated or 1 loss teams “ahead” of them.”
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While I see what you’re saying, my objective is to MAKE it objective. Win your conference championship game. If you don’t, quit whining. Take opinion out of it.
Remember when we all fussed about the AP poll sometimes being wrong, so that led to the League of Bowls and BCS? The idea being that if the #1 and #2 teams play each other in the end, we'd know who the real champion is. The odds of the best team being ranked #3 or #4 was so extremely low it wasn't worth arguing for them to have a chance to prove themselves (if the goal is still to find out who the #1 team is). So we were satisfied with that for a while.
Then Bama fatigue set in -- everybody outside the state of Alabama wondered if someone else could beat Bama and be the #1 team. So it was expanded to a 4-team playoff. The idea being that maybe the best team had been ranked #3 all along. Nobody really believed that, but that's what was touted as an excuse for more feature creep (having to change the system to have new features).
Are FSU fans now saying they're the true best team? Really? If not, then complaining about not being in the playoffs is more feature creep -- making the playoffs have a goal besides determining the true champion. And the CFP is going to a 12-team format next year anyway; will team #13 inevitably complain that they're the real champion?