In Reply to: When it comes to conference champions, the rules are different posted by mh on December 08, 2025 at 13:58:38
and the field is not determined 100% by some structural criteria that fully excludes all esthetic judgment, yes, there will always be a lot of complaints.
Solution: develop a system that completely removes any eyeball based ranking from the picture. I've been arguing since I've ever been on these boards that college football playoffs should include conference champions only. Well the landscape changed since then, so maybe also include the runner-ups, I dunno. The key thing is we need to remove opinons and perception, i.e., ranking. (I've also argued since forever maybe that any "sport" where esthetics are part of the score is not an actual sport. Competition perhaps, but not a sport.