re: Does a 2 loss SEC team make the 4 team playoff ?

Look back at the previous years and see if you would've taken a 2 loss SEC team. These are all from the last poll before bowls.

SEC teams in bold.

2013
1 Florida State 13-0
2 Auburn 12-1
3 Alabama 11-1
4 Michigan State 12-1
5 Stanford 11-2
6 Baylor 11-1
7 Ohio State 12-1
8 Missouri 11-2
9 South Carolina 10-2
10 Oregon 10-2

2012
1 Notre Dame 12-0
2 Alabama 12-1
3 Florida 11-1
4 Oregon 11-1
5 Kansas State 11-1
6 Stanford 11-2
7 Georgia 11-2
8 LSU 10-2
9 Texas A&M 10-2
10 South Carolina 10-2

2011
1 LSU 13-0
2 Alabama 11-1
3 Oklahoma State 11-1
4 Stanford 11-1
5 Oregon 11-2
6 Arkansas 10-2
7 Boise State 11-1
8 Kansas State 10-2
9 South Carolina 10-2
10 Wisconsin 11-2

2010
1 Auburn 13-0
2 Oregon 12-0
3 TCU 12-0
4 Stanford 11-1
5 Wisconsin 11-1
6 Ohio State 11-1
7 Oklahoma 11-2
8 Arkansas 10-2
9 Michigan State 11-1
10 Boise State 11-1

It could happen, but not likely. Thankfully you're no longer done with one loss. Just win out.

How about this, A&M goes 11-1, the loss is to Auburn. Auburn goes 12-0, wins the west, blows out the SEC East winner and goes to playoff. Two other spots go to a undefeated or 1 loss PAC team and Big 10 team. ACC winner is 2 loss.

A&M now has a chance to get in. That's a huge improvement over the old system.

Hope not

No chance, unless they won the SECCG then they'd have a shot.

If you don't win your conference you ain't getting in... Period!
That's the point, they will absolutely make it a big part of getting in. The argument is too easy, win your conference.

5 P5 and ND, for 4 spots, worst record stays home.

Only if they win the SECCG

2 loss SEC champs? Sure.

2 loss at large from the SEC? No way in hell.

Leaving out the SEC champ in a 4 team "playoff" would make college football a farce.

Nope

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The only way it happens is if one division kills itself and has a 3-loss champion and that team pulls an LSU-Tennessee style upset in the SECCG.

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What that 3 loss team barely beats an undefeated West team, like Bama, Au, or LSU? Who goes,? The 12-1 secg loser or the 10-3 secg winner? Neither Or both?

It would depend on the other conference champ records, say none were undefeated.

Likely. The other 3 slots will likely go to FSU(ACC Champ) and someone from the Big 12 and Pac 12. The only other real shot at beating the SEC out would be the Big 10. It would have to be Auburn or Bama, who has pull from recent success to jump a one loss Big 10 Champ. If its a 2 loss Big 10 or undefeated small school any SEC Champ would get in over them.