Unconquered

Let me gues how they pick the four playoff teams:

1.SEC East Champion
2.SEC West Champion
3.At-large SEC school
4.A weaker team from a slow conference that would get smeared by an SEC team. Further confirming the SEC as college football almighty jerk-offs.

Big issue if they take only conference champions is that Notre Dame gets left out. It also dilutes your non-conference schedule even further. One approach may be to take big four conference champions but only if they are in the final top six of the current BCS ratings poll. If not then you take who is next in the pecking order. They will figure it out.

I thought the opposite in regards to non-conf games. If the biggest factor in getting included in the NC hunt is winning your conf then non-conf LOSSES would mean much less than they do now...thus giving the school more inclination to schedule compelling matchups. It would be a great boost to CFB if this would happen. The way it is now the chances of seeing the Noles play the Southern Cal, Oklahoma, Michigan, Bama's are a thing of the past because neither team wants to chance a non-conf loss that excludes them from NC hunt.

If polls are the major factor like they are now then the pussification of the schedules will continue. Goodbye Oklahoma hello Savannah St.

If conf champs don't mean a thing then ND and the Big 12 have a competitive advantage. Why would ND join a conf and why would the Big 12 add a CCG?

Polls blow. Conf championship games should be the 1st round of the playoff system.

Notre Dame will no longer get their "auto at large" like they currently have, you will have to be a member of a conference, I think thats going to be written in stone.

I did hear an interesting solution to the NBC contract thing, or an option, ND keeps that then the espn/abc acc conf balances out the other conf schools, once they are all even, then ND gets to share in that for football.

Joe Schad says ND feels no need to join a conference.

That "benefit" comes in SOS (Strength of Schedule) and improved BCS statistical rankings.

Until all conferences are created and balanced, and even HAVE a champ-game.... there's absolutely no basis for having the championship game be a requirement.

If Oklahoma wins the Big12, but doesn't even play in a champ game because they don't HAVE one... how's that fair?

Is Bubba State equal to LSU because both won their respective conferences?

Why should the Big East be allowed to put in a crappy team in the playoffs at the cost of leaving out a better team from a better conference just because they were #2 in that conference. Are you stating that the #1 from the Big East is always better than the #2 from the SEC?

I could go on.. but I think you get the picture/problem.

Play the BEST 4, period.

I think you need to give some extra consideration to conference champs. I think the way to pick the teams is to say the top 4 ranked conf champs are guaranteed a spot if they finish in say the top 6. If you have the top 4 conf champs ranked 1,2,4,5 all 4 make it in (sorry #3 - you're out). If the top 4 champs are ranked 1,2,4,9 then #3 makes it in as a wild card with #9 sitting it out.

Or Top six with the #1 and #2 teams getting bye...

3v6 - if 6 wins, then one meets 6. If 3 wins, then 2 meets three.
4v5 - same concept as above.