Did Tua, Bama QB, eye poke a bulldog late in the game???

[BVHawk95]

Each conference should have the responsibility to establish for themselves who their "best" team is from their conference. Even if they are unsure themselves.

Let the conferences themselves nominate one team on whatever criteria they want (including eye tests if they would like). Push this drama back into the conferences where they arise. I'm sure it'll get fixed a lot faster that way. See Big 12 adding a championship game...

I don't know if I would like that either, because we'd likely see Alabama representing the SEC most years, OSU for us, and etc. The conferences would again go with their best, rather than their most deserving.

 

[Ree4]

Whoa, Bama played FSU week 1. FSU was like #1 or 2 at the time of the game. Bama crushed FSU's QB, but was winning the game before that. Notwithstanding how bad FSU tanked with their backup QB, that was a better win than anyone in the Big Ten had out of conference. Hell, looking back on how things shook out, Iowa's win at Iowa State was probably the best win the conference had until bowl season kicked off.

Sorry, but 1st week polls are garbage - pure speculation. In 2015 Iowa beat two ranked teams on the road but that didn't seem to matter because they were unranked after they lost to lowly Iowa

 

[Ree4]

I don't know if I would like that either, because we'd likely see Alabama representing the SEC most years, OSU for us, and etc. The conferences would again go with their best, rather than their most deserving.

Those two already do most years.

 

[GoHawks12345]

I don't know if I would like that either, because we'd likely see Alabama representing the SEC most years, OSU for us, and etc. The conferences would again go with their best, rather than their most deserving.

I'd honestly be surprised if a conference doesn't nominate the winner of their conference championship game.

Otherwise, why play the games?

And this would have meant Penn State being "nominated" before Ohio state in 2016. So in this one case, it would have hurt OSU.

 

[SpiderRico]

From the beginning, I've been a proponent of having a 6 team playoff....the 5 winners of the P5 conference championship games and 1 G5 at large.

Top 2 teams get a bye and the other two games are played at the highest seeded teams' home field.

This still keeps the regular season sacred, it gives some relevance to the conference championship games, it gives the "Cinderella" a shot (a la the NCAA Tourney) and rewards the two best teams in the country with byes.