What will probably end up happening is the committee will err on the side of conference champions with the same record as "at large" teams. So take this year for example. As it stands, the play-off would probably be FSU, AU, Bama, and Michigan State. Three conference champions plus a good looking Bama at-large.

But what if Stanford only had one loss? That would give you four conference champions with similar records. My guess is that at this point Bama gets left out in favor of a team that won their conference, and especially their championship game.

Of course, Bama does get treated differently, so they may get in over that hypothetical Stanford team anyway. But other teams would probably get left out.

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Posted by coachcrisp

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Posted on 12/16/13 at 10:33 am to TigerNutwhack

If you had a 32-team playoff, somebody's gonna get left out....such is life.

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Posted by molsusports

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Posted on 12/16/13 at 10:33 am to TigerNutwhack

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What will probably end up happening is the committee will err on the side of conference champions with the same record as "at large" teams.

It will be interesting to see how they play it out. If your hypothesis were true they would be obligated to consider teams like Baylor and UCF ahead of higher ranked conference champs like Stanford or at large teams with the same record like Bama.

But there's going to be an amazing amount of pressure put on that committee especially if they don't make more public the specific criteria by which they are going to make their decisions.

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