Sort of this. Conference championships should mean something, and for them to mean something, you need AQ for expanded playoffs. Or, only conference champions get in the playoff. The handwringing that would have happened because UGA wouldn't be in a playoff because they lost the SEC title game doesn't bother me. I'm aware CFB is hard to compare to other sports because there are 130 teams playing very different schedules, but the reality is there are only a very limited number of teams that have premium talent rosters.
The Yankees won the World Series in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953. But 1954 the Yankees didn't make the World Series despite winning 103 games because Cleveland won 111 that year. Cleveland got swept by the 97 win Giants in the Series. One could argue the Yankees were the best team, but they weren't the most deserving. Maybe the Yankees should have won 112 games that year and they wouldn't have sat home. 11 win NFL team might miss the playoffs while an 8 win team gets in because divisions are different, and that's okay.
Sorry 12-1 UGA, you stay home while 10-3 Utah goes to the playoff. I imagine UGA is better than Utah, but Utah actually won their conference game when they HAD to get a win. The SEC championship game didn't matter to UGA because they were in even with a loss. The 2017 Big 10 championship didn't matter either. tOSU won it to finish 10-2 Big 10 champs but they missed the playoff in favor of 11-1 Bama that didn't win their division. Why? Because tOSU had the stones to play an OOC game with OU and came up short. Play strong OOC and win you conference and you get to stay home while non-division winner goes to the playoff. Some moron will say "well Bama won the playoff because they're the best team so they should've been there." Maybe tOSU would have won it if they were in. Maybe Bama should've beaten flipping Auburn if they wanted to be in the playoff. CFB is a dumb, dumb sport these days.