Bama wouldn’t have been in the conversation if the Committee didn’t bounce Miami, who had a and still has a better record than Bama, BELOW Bama
Indiana Seed vs their record….along those same lines of what was done on the field
Right, but now you are talking a 2 loss difference vs a 1 loss difference with SMU. Again, what is your line?
Correct
Bama and Ole Miss beat the SEC Champ #2 Seed
That wasn’t the case when the Commish spoke…it is now and IS a data point
That is not a factor for "Data Points" in the championship weekend. They have said that the championship weekend essentially is a play in for the first round bye. The reasoning is they think it's unfair to make some teams play an additional game against elite talent while others can sit back and play nobody. Honestly it makes sense to me. I mean, we good rewarding Ohio State with a move up because they didn't have to face the only undefeated team in College Football on an extra weekend? You could make that weekend a top 25 showdown weekend possibly, where if you aren't in a conference championship game, you play the next best team in your conference. So that same weekend you get Tennesse hosting Bama, Ohio State hosting Indiana, Miami vs Syracuse, Ole Miss vs. South Carolina, etc.
But at some point just win your games. If you only lose once in a major conference (or twice if you are in the SEC and maybe the Big 10) you get in easily. I have a tough time feeling pity for the Bama's of the world who can't beat .500 teams, or Ole Miss who gave Kentucky their ONLY win in the SEC. I actually could easily argue South Carolina was the biggest snub out of the SEC, but again, I don't really think there were snubs, hands were tied when Clemson beat SMU and got the auto-bid. They did everything they could to get Bama in. Getting blown out by Oklahoma in the second to last weekend should have dropped Bama into the low teens/upper 20s in a just world anyways.
Of course, the other option is get rid of conference champions completely. With the elimination of the bowls, and the quick assent to the elimination of conferences anyways, it seems easiest just to take the top 12 teams anyways (and would be better if they designed computer systems to select them).