[OutsiderFan]

This whole idea of a committee deciding who deserves to play for a championship, without regard to conference championships, is to me outrageous in the context of what sports have always been about.  Win a division championship and you are in the playoffs, period.  Ergo, the winner of Penn State and Wisconsin should be in the College Football playoff, because the Big Ten is the best conference this season by most measures.

The only room the committee really has with four spots for five Power 5 conference teams, is to decide which conference should be left out.  That conference should clearly be the Big 12.  If the committee wants to include a non-conference champion, fine, but that should only be done with an at minimum 6-team format, and if you are going to have 6, it would make a lot more sense to have an 8-team playoff.

What chafes me is that a Wisconsin or Penn State winner being left out will be talked about as outrageous, but it will pale in comparison to how outrageous it was to keep Stanford out of the playoff in 2015.

It would be unfortunate to keep Ohio State out of the playoffs, but it would be an absolute outrage to keep two of three conference champions out of the playoff so non-conference champion Ohio State can be in it.

[OutsiderFan]

This whole idea of a committee deciding who deserves to play for a championship, without regard to conference championships, is to me outrageous in the context of what sports have always been about.  Win a division championship and you are in the playoffs, period.  Ergo, the winner of Penn State and Wisconsin should be in the College Football playoff, because the Big Ten is the best conference this season by most measures.

The only room the committee really has with four spots for five Power 5 conference teams, is to decide which conference should be left out.  That conference should clearly be the Big 12.  If the committee wants to include a non-conference champion, fine, but that should only be done with an at minimum 6-team format, and if you are going to have 6, it would make a lot more sense to have an 8-team playoff.

What chafes me is that a Wisconsin or Penn State winner being left out will be talked about as outrageous, but it will pale in comparison to how outrageous it was to keep Stanford out of the playoff in 2015.

It would be unfortunate to keep Ohio State out of the playoffs, but it would be an absolute outrage to keep two of three conference champions out of the playoff so non-conference champion Ohio State can be in it.