IDGAF who wins the supposed NC in any college sport. With as many teams as there are and as few of games as there are and non-uniform rules and scheduling, it's impossible to have a fair champion regardless of the system. Don't worry about it.
What is unfair about 12 teams with 11 conference champs and 1 at-large?
The 11 conferences aren't equal.
If they were equal, there would be no need to include conference champs.
LOL WUT
If the conferences were all equal, it would be fair to just look at records and competition and pick the best teams. They are not, though, so if we are going to a big playoff, it's only fair to teams like last season's Houston to include auto-bids to conference champs. Who cares if they aren't one of the best 12 teams? As long as the best 3 or 4 teams are in the playoff, it doesn't really matter.
What you are suggesting is essentially the way a champion is crowned in nearly every other sport, only instead of conference champions, it's usually division champions. Baseball, football, basketball...all start with qualifying for the "playoffs" by winning your division or your conference or whatever. And this clearly doesn't ever work because it takes the human element out of things. How much more awesome would it be if the NFL would allow a panel to pick the best teams to play each other regardless of that teams record...that would be way better than this crap they have now. The Yankees should always make the playoffs regardless of where they finish because they ALWAYS have the best team with the best talent...just because they don't win doesn't mean they aren't the better team. Get on board people...jeezus.
Yeah, if we want to cut down CFB to 32 teams and mandate that they play 8 home and 8 away with home&home vs. their division opponents & then have various levels of playoff benefits based on how teams do in their uniform regular seasons, that would work.
