Considering that Miami also beat the other team that beat Notre Dame, A&M, it also helps ND’s case.
This is what I do to fix the playoffs.
1 - Scrap the Conference Championship Games, Miami didn’t even have to play in one, who cares about conference championships anymore?
2 - Simply seed the teams 1-12 as currently done. Then the 11 and 12 seeds have to play a ‘play-in’ game against one of the two best G5 teams, in essence expanding the field to 14 teams. Had it been done this year, then Notre Dame and BYU would have played JMU and Tulane, respectively.
I’d just do champions from ACC, Big 10, SEC, and Big XII.
Four teams. Win your conference or you’re obviously not the best team in the country.
Maybe they could just add four more teams to the playoffs and the too four teams don’t get a bye week.
Let conference championship games be played, but not have a bearing on the rankings. The schools want these games because they make a lot of money on them.