re: Criteria for the playoffs next year

Here is the link to the article ESPN ran in June 2012. LINK

Here is the paragraph, near the bottom of the page, that addresses conference champions:

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The championship game will be managed by the conferences and will not be branded as a bowl game. The presidents also announced the creation of a selection committee that will rank the teams to play in the playoff, "giving all the teams an equal opportunity to participate." The committee will consider win-loss record, strength of schedule, head-to-head results and whether a team is a conference champion.

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Wikipedia has this about the selection process:

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Unlike college football's current title system, the Bowl Championship Series, the new format will not use computer rankings or polls in the selection of its 12 participating teams. Rather, a committee of 13 people will select and seed the teams.[8] The playoff system will be the first to determine the top-level NCAA football championship by a bracket competition. The new format is known as a Plus-One system, a proposal which became popular in 2011 as a replacement for the BCS.

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Edited to get rid of the shitty blank space at the bottom of the original post.