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Not interested in the poster bickering but the point I was trying to make by listing all the top 4 teams was that as bad as the BcS was, it got the final 4 right well more often than not.

There really isn't that much debate about #5 much less #6 or #7.

And I do think winning the conference is a big deal so take 2008 for example, you have TEXAS and Bama as "wild cards" with USC sitting at #5 and a conference champ. Simple solution, the team with the weaker SOS between TEXAS and Bama is out and USC is in.

Now you are going to have a year like 1998 where you have 1 unbeaten then 4 teams with the same record and all conference champs. Again, if head to head is not a tie breaker then it's SOS.

This also serves CFB well as teams will be reluctant to play all cupcakes for fear their SOS will be too low. Frankly you could even use a sub-set of OOC SOS as another judgement factor to penalize teams for trying to go soft.

The point is, 4 has historically worked better than most think.

Why would you advocate making SOS irrelevant?

You didn't answer my question. Why would you want SOS to not matter? SOS being a factor is good for college football and the fans. The more SOS matters, the better matchups fans get to see in the non-conference schedules.

If you go back and look at the top 8 in the final AP poll prior to the bowl games and compare that to the "conference champion and runner up" of the ACC, Big 12, Pac 10, and Big 10 (I'm even spotting you excluding the Big East, which I shouldn't) and then take a step back and ask yourself which of those 8 teams better reflects the 8 best team in the country, I think you'll change your opinion that hard and fast rules are better than a common sense approach.

Your approach would have excluded Texas in 2008, it would have excluded Alabama last year. Instead of 2008 Texas and 2011 Alabama (consensus top 3 teams in the country), in 2008, the ACC runner up was 9-4 (9-5 after losing to Vaderbilt in a bowl game) Boston College. In 2011, the Pac 12 runner up was a god-freaking-awful UCLA team that had to petition for bowl eligibility with its 6-6 record after getting destroyed by Oregon.

The most crooked "sucky" (to use your eloquent term) selection committee would not make the same inexcusable mistake to exclude a top 3 team from a top 8 playoff in at least 2 out of the last 4 years as your system would. Plus, your system provides ZERO access for teams in conferences outside of the Big 12/Big 10/ACC/Pac 12. No reason worthy teams from MWC, WAC, C-USA, or Big East should be excluded if they're deserving. The facts just aren't on your side here. Not even close.

You need to take a step back and start analyzing actual facts instead of raw emotions. Or, you could continue the incredibly persuasive argument style of CAPITALIZING random WORDS.