A playoff would potentially create rematches of games played during the regular season. NO FUCKING REMATCHES!!!!!11!!
See? This is the stupid kind of logically devoid bullshit that proves YOU'RE the one floundering for justification for your predetermined preferred outcome.
IF there was a playoff (which there's not), OSU & Bama (and LSU, and if it's an 8-team playoff then also Virginia Tech, and Stanford, and Houston, and Oregon, and Arkansas) would have a fair shake the championship. In a tournament setting, they can play 7 games each like baseball or basketball finals for all I care. We don't have that. The best teams don't get to compete. Just two do. Two based on subjective opinions. And money. Mostly money.
And you guys want to talk about made up stipulations. Isn't the whole thing vague as shit? Isn't the only thing that's clear is that the purpose of the thing is to add an extra game besides just the other four BCS bowls to determine an "uncontested" national champion? Yes, you have to take the #1 & #2 teams, but A) I don't think whoever came up with that had this kind of scenario in mind in which this much favoritism would be shown to the loser of a head-to-head match-up that they'd actually get a second shot, while others with the same record against a stronger SOS don't even get to try once, and B) as mentioned before #1 & #2 is completely subjective. You can tell me til you're blue in the face that Alabama is beyond a shadow of a doubt better that LSU and Alabama are the two best schools, and I will maintain for eternity that the only thing we know with that degree of certainty is that LSU > Bama, as proven on the field.
EVERYTHING else is speculation based on talking heads, their agendas, and the almighty dollar. Houston deserves a shot far more than Bama does, even with the lesser competition they
have faced, because
THEY DIDN'T ALREADY LOSE AGAINST #1. They could beat Green Bay for all we know, and they'll never get the chance to prove it. Alabama
did get the chance to prove they were the best team, and they blew it.