re: This is why I hate a Committee making the decisions

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At this point, who cares? OSU has Michigan and Penn St. to contend with. Alabama and LSU have each other and Georgia to contend with, so all this talk to this point is moot!

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This year it will work out, yes.

There will come a year where it won't, though. Where the major conferences will have winners with identical records. Where a bunch of teams from a conference will all have 1 loss to each other.

Imagine this scenario:

Alabama beats LSU, loses to Auburn - 11-1
Auburn loses to LSU, beats Alabama - 11-1
LSU loses to Alabama, beats Auburn - 11-1

The SEC has a very specific set of criteria on how to settle this. We'll say, for the sake of argument, that LSU makes the SECCG through the use of the last tie-breaker criteria. (Alabama, thanks to Tennessee sucking, is first out due to record of SEC East foes - then head-to-head has LSU in).

The committee, however, sees Auburn lose to a 2-loss Georgia team in a rematch.

11-2 Auburn, 11-1 Alabama, 11-1 LSU, 11-2 Georgia
Say you have a 13-0 Clemson with the lowest SOS of all teams
A 1-loss Oklahoma team and a 1-loss Baylor team
A 2-loss Penn State with a B1G title over 1-loss OSU
A 2-loss PAC12 champ (but with two OOC P5 wins over top 25 teams)

Who goes to the playoffs?

We shouldn't ignore possible scenarios until they happen.