A hypothetical 10-team playoff...

Conference play is not all that matters, the entire season matters. OOC games matter as much as in conference games. Solely focusing on conference games is also a terrible way to determine the best team because of the difference in difficulty within the conferences but even more so within the divisions.

One team could drop a conference game while one drops one of their OOC. They both lost, but with this mentality the better team is the one with the OOC loss. Why does that make sense?

You say below you guarantee Ohio State and USC would have won the playoff, yet they both lost twice. Ohio State was blown out twice ooc, USC 1 close in conference game and then got blown out OOC. Do their losses not count because they were ooc?

The rest of USC's division went 7-6, 6-7, and 5-7, meaning USC didn't really have a lot of competition in their division, while Ohio State was in a division with teams who went 11-2 (Penn) and 10-3 (msu). Winning one of those divisions means more than the other. This is another issue with that, the better team could be second place in a tough division.

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