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.
I should specify that in effect, now the Power Five Conference Championship games ARE part of the playoffs. That’s where the 10 teams come from.
Heck with it. Let’s just scrap the regular season and make it into one big Playoff.