If Bama wins, it would be the 2nd out of 4 tries that the 4 seed has won it all (the top seed has never won). If the last team selected can win half the time, why would we assume #5-10 wouldn't be the "best team" if they won it all?
No one would. I mean look at the big 10, 3 NY6 bowls and they won all 3, and the only one that was won by a TD or less was Penn St-WashU and most of that game Penn St was up by 2+ TDs. Any one of those 3 teams would be serious champ game contenders, I like that we've got a playoff, and I am playing the long con on doing this in baby steps, but until this playoff has all P5 conference champs, the top G5 team and at least 2 at larges then it forever will let a few teams that could go the distance out of it.
And fwiw I'm generally ok with UCF milking this for all they got. Teams like TCU pre Big 12 (2011 Rose Bowl v Wisconsin and played v. Boise St in 2009 Fiesta Bowl but lost), Utah pre Pac 12 (2005 Fiesta and 2009 Sugar v. 12-1 Bama), Boise St (2006, 2009, and 2014 Fiesta Bowls), UCF (2013 Fiesta and obv 2017 Peach bowl), Houston (2015 Peach), have proven themselves capable of winning BCS/NY6 bowls against any other competition, and pretty much successful (Western Michigan, Hawaii, and Northern Illinois are the only to lose a BCS/NY6 games vs a P5 school).
It makes them 9-4 in those games, 1 of those losses being cause it had to happen between TCU/Boise St.
