re: SEC Playoff scenario

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The system you are looking for is a playoff and best way to determine a entry to a playoff is each team to have the same criteria...and right now the best way is a conference championship.

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That's not an answer, though. It's tautological. The best way to pick the best is to pick the best from this criterion that you haven't proven is, well, the best because anyone who wins that game must be the best?

You don't answer my question -- how is a conference championship game more meaningful than any other game against a top opponent? If your toughest game of the season is in October against a team that finishes in the top 5 and your conference championship is against a substantially weaker team, how does conference championship prove to be a definitive means of establishing a team's worthiness for the play-off? Last season, for instance, Auburn beating Bama was more impressive than them beating Missouri, but your scenario assumes that the SECCG is somehow a better measuring stick of worthiness....which, no. Once you acknowledge -- and it's really hard to pretend otherwise -- that it's quite possible there are going to be games against better opponents in the regular season than in the CG, you lose any logical standing in your argument because you've singled out one game that has no inherent virtue and decided it absolutely provides a necessary platform for any argument to get into the playoffs. That's just an irrational adherence to an unneeded absolute.

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Again though, the National Champion is not always the best team. How do you figure out who is the best team? the ones with Best Coaches? Best Prospects? Best Offense? Best Defense?

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There's no perfect way to establish "the best." Even if every single team played in a massive round-robin, there's always a chance the 2nd or 3rd or 10th best team will somehow emerge on top. But the addition of an irrelevant criterion -- "must win conference championship" -- is a move away from establishing it, not toward. You've essentially eliminated teams by default, and the very second you do that, you run a greater risk of keeping "the best" out of the playing field. You see what I'm saying? You're artificially restricting the field with a standard that doesn't necessarily converge with the standard of "the best."