re: If Bama and Utah both win out, how do you justify Bama over conference champ Utah?

I don’t buy the conference championship argument. All conferences are not equal. The top 2-3 teams in the SEC West are usually better than the PAC 12 champ. The point is to get the 4 best teams in the country. I don’t care if they’re all in the same conference. The Bama-UGA all-SEC game was one of the greatest NC games ever.