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I have no dog in this fight either. Not a fan of Bama. I was just going by the parameters that seem to be influencing the committee all season long, not including the money, which we all know that eyeballs influence their decisions, and have every year for as long as the BCS/CFP (or whatever the current configuration is now) has been around. It’s never been fair or right. I have simply been arguing that what they decided is their latest system, even though it’s full of flaws.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe SOS has never been a part of their decision, but it sure seems like it has been going on all season long to me.

Can anyone here agree that the current system sucks, and that an actual playoff system will be an improvement?

Maybe next year, we will all no longer be bitching and complaining. Or maybe we will. Can’t wait to see what the next iteration of rules brings.

Agreed. Next year no 13 gonna’ be complaining. They’re gonna seed teams based the techniques they are using now. So the playoffs will never be completely fair. Even head to head doesn’t always determine who is the best team..bad ref calls, weather, injuries, bad communications all effect an outcome.
Cheers and may the best team on that day win and will no one get seriously injured.

People forget how much complaining went on during the "two-team" Bowl Championship Series days. (The irony is that the SEC had proposed a four-team playoff all the way back in 2008, but the Big 12 and PAc-12 had rejected that proposal, to their eventual detriment.)

There was no good reason for 2011 Oklahoma State (who got left out of the championship game between undefeated LSU and a one-loss Alabama, whose only loss that year had been against LSU!) or 2004 Auburn (finished undefeated, but was left out of the championship game between undefeated Oklahoma and USC) to not get a chance to prove it on the field.

For that matter, how about the decision that 2008 Florida and Oklahoma (who both finished 12-1) deserved a championship berth, but 11-1 USC (Pac-10 champ) and Penn State (Big 10 co-champion, as the conference didn't actually have a championship game to its own until 2011), and 12-0 Utah (Mountain West champs, would eventually beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl) and Boise State (WAC champs) didn't?

There have always been complaints about leaving undefeated Group of Five teams out, but those exact same complaints would have been lodged against a two-team system (and a two-team system never would have allowed 2021 Cincinnati in).