All of this, every word of it, is subjective. You feeeeel like Ohio State wouldn't be able to beat Bama head-to-head. You feeeeel like they would have lost half their games in the SEC. You feeeeel like the Big 10 is a "shit conference".
Subjectivity is what you get when you leave it to a bunch of people with biases and agendas. Even if they have neither, you're still leaving it to a room full of people. I said when the CFP model was introduced that it would solve nothing, and would only increase the instances of non conference champions and rematches in the playoffs. I don't know why everyone is surprised that we are worse off than we were with the BCS model. Everyone threw the baby out with the bathwater because they were so upset about The Rematch. In reality, the BCS simply needed to be supplemented, not replaced.
What is objective FACT is that they won their conference. And that their conference dominated bowl season, even if you don't feeeeel like that should count for anything.
I don't think that anyone disagrees that conference championships should mean
something. They just shouldn't mean
everything. They should be part of the whole body of work. tOSU is a good example. Yes, they won their conference. But they also got hammered by 31 points to an unranked Iowa team. Why doesn't that mean anything? They also had a loss to Oklahoma. That stings quite a bit less than the Iowa loss, but that's two losses nonetheless.
I also like how out of one corner of y'all's mouths, "Hey, everybody has bad days, even if they did beat Bama on the field, doesn't mean Bama's not better. If an 8-4 team from the east beats a 12-0 team from the west, doesn't mean they're better, they just had a better day." but at the same time that logic simply CANNOT be applied to Ohio State's bad Iowa loss. But it's fine for Oklahoma vs. Iowa State and Clemson vs. Syracuse and for that matter Georgia & Bama vs. us.
In a previous example, Snags gave a scenario of an 8-4 team getting a last second pick 6 in the conference championship game versus a 12-0 team. I would say a scenario like that qualifies as a bad day for the 12-0 team. Getting curb stomped by 31 points is getting curb stomped by 31 points. Oklahoma gave up the go ahead TD with 2 minutes left in the game to Iowa State. That's a bad day. And that was in week 5, which gave other teams plenty of time to lose, and for OU to move up. Clemson somewhat gets a pass as well, because you and I both know the only reason they lost (by 3 points) was because their starting QB got knocked out of the game in the first half.
Whether we like it or not, the earlier you lose, the better off you are if you're going to lose one. And as long as you have a room full of people deciding things, you're going to have subjectivity. The irony here is that if there had not been a SECCG, Auburn would have been in, and Alabama would have been out. Again, at this point, I think the SECCG is pointless.
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