Automatically include the Power Five conference champions plus the best at-large
and if those five champs include teams like Florida, a three TD loser to average Arky, and VaTech, a two TD loser to bottom feeder Syracuse...? How s that indicative of the ‘cream of the crop’...?
and while we’re whacking away here, let’s not forget vaunted Penn St. six TD loss to Michigan; why should any team who loses by six TD’s think it deserves a top spot...? Do away with these artificial conference divisions, and contrived chammionship games where the contestants are clearly not the best conference teams...
This is so true. You can literally win your division and a conference title by virtue of a softer Cross-Division schedule. Pretty sure the only thing considered is Big 10 record for instance if you consider the Big 10.
Scenario:
Nebraska goes 8-1 in Big10 only losing to Wisconsin in West and 3-0 vs East beating Penn St and Rutgers at home and Indiana on road.
Wisconsin goes 7-2 in conference. 6-0 vs West and 1-2 vs East losing to Penn St and Ohio St in road night games and beating Rutgers at home.
Nebraska plays for championship while losing the west but having 2 of 3 East games home and 2 of 3 vs. weak teams.
So suddenly Wisconsin can’t “even represent it’s division” the nation sneers while Nebraska loses a hard fought game to MSU and gets the NY6 bowl bid over Wisconsin because “at least they played for the conference championship”
Those games are BS moneymakers unless schedules are balanced.