"Teams that are idle can move up or down"

They also claim to value SOS....

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For those of us who don't watch ESPN, can you draw a better picture?

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Maybe later, but I don't feel like it right now

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Q. Hunter, I wanted to follow up for broader clarification since he was asking specifically about Notre Dame-Miami. Can a team presently outside the 12-team field that does not play in a conference championship game move into the field? Is that possible?

HUNTER YURACHEK: Yes. Idle teams can move based on the results of the championship games. There may be something that happens in a championship game that impacts an idle team, whether that's their strength of schedule or some other datapoint that we use, or there could be a team that suffers a significant loss in a title game.

We don't try to predict what's going to happen, but yes, idle teams can move within the rankings as we rerank them one last time this weekend.

Q. To follow up, related but in a broader sense because Ward said last year that the committee would not use it as a "negative" for teams who lose conference title games. Obviously they could move down but not -- he said negative. Obviously SMU stayed in the field even with a loss. Is the committee open to dropping conference title game losers, specifically as it relates to Alabama and BYU, or are they locked in even with a loss?

HUNTER YURACHEK: Again, each of the championship games will just give us another game and another datapoint to evaluate the teams that participate in those championship games and the idle teams around them. We'll rerank the teams one last time this weekend, and the five highest ranked conference

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So we're gonna need to beat them by 17+ in convincing fashion to blow them out of the picture.

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I sure as frick hope so.