As hard as it is to understand, unless it expands to 8 where you can let in all 5 conference winners and 3 wildcards, it will be nothing more than an eye test. One conference winner still can't get in under this setup. And you will also have the occasional lesser team popping up and winning the conference with an upset. Certain teams like Bama and OSU will still get the benefit of the doubt more than others.
I think head to head should matter some but not that much. We beat OSU, OSU beat Michigan, Michigan beat us. Should be the overall body of work.
The best thing is to probably get rid of the conference title games. It really doesn't make sense that OSU sits home and gets a bye and still gets in, Unless they go to 8 teams, why bother scheduling anyone tough out of conference because that is clearly what hurt us.
With all that said, the thing that hurt us more than anything was clearly the second loss. We'd have been better off not playing Pitt and playing the Citadel and winning. Or- just beat Pitt. Either case would have gotten us in.
I think head to head should matter some but not that much. We beat OSU, OSU beat Michigan, Michigan beat us. Should be the overall body of work.
The best thing is to probably get rid of the conference title games. It really doesn't make sense that OSU sits home and gets a bye and still gets in, Unless they go to 8 teams, why bother scheduling anyone tough out of conference because that is clearly what hurt us.
With all that said, the thing that hurt us more than anything was clearly the second loss. We'd have been better off not playing Pitt and playing the Citadel and winning. Or- just beat Pitt. Either case would have gotten us in.