There will always be disappointments in the formula to calculate the FBS top 25 because there are so many moving parts, but I think the process, if not the formula, is a good one. Maybe the formula can be improved. There certainly are a lot of moving parts and from what I’ve seen, you get 25 people and they have 25 different ways they would do the FBS formula.
I wanted to try to accomplish as much as possible with the fewest number of games necessary to do it.
By automatically including the Conference Champions, it essentially expands it to be a 12-team Playoff, adding in the 2 At-Large teams.