[TigerClaws]

Ohio State won their conference. Won two games against top 4 teams when games were played.

Alabama best who? Lost their division. Didn’t play in conference championship. Alabama is out.

[Alberta's Child]

This is a scenario where conference championship games actually undermine the process. In the case of Auburn and Georgia, the SEC championship game turned out to be an opportunity to LOSE one more game ... which put them in the unusual position of stacking up poorly against an Alabama team that didn't even make it to the championship game.

This is probably a good indication that some of these conferences are too BIG. I think the playoff selection process can handle a situation where two of the top four teams in the country happen to come from the same conference. But as we saw with Alabama and LSU a few years ago, the process breaks down when you have two of the top four teams in the country playing in the same DIVISION of the same conference.