I was on board with the 8 team 25 years ago with the 12 team conferences. play 10 conf games and 2 OOC.
the superconferences screwed this all up because you can game the system with the schedule(see aggy this year).
2027 and 2029 we have UGA, Bama, ND. sure we could win 3 of those but could lose all 3. meanwhile Tech with the 70th ranked schedule and loses to Arizona fucking State. is in. they didn't beat all the teams they should beat. Utah with the 50th ranked schedule and 2 losses is ahead of us.
even aggy's schedule is 15 or something while playing the dregs of the SEC and ND. Ole Miss played no one OOC and almost lost at home to Wazzu, should have lost to LSU and possibly the same Ark team we drilled.
they should just say the cut line is fewer than 3 losses and we'll pick the best 8 from there. then everyone knows the score. our SOS will always be good enough with a decent P4 and 2 others and there will always be arguments. we are out with 3 losses no matter what, as was Bama last year, due to the necessity for the committee to include other Big 12 and ACC teams and even a 2 loss ND(with a 27th SOS this year) in the mix. G5 just makes it worse.
G5 can get fucked at this point, IMO. they can have their own 8 team playoff.
maybe these last 2 years are outliers but I'll believe it when I see it that a 3 loss non conf champ makes the top 11 in the super conference era because they rank by number of losses.
don't lose 3 games regardless of who they are to.