Pilchard
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If you're an 8-4 Va Tech team that upsets 11-1 Clemson (or WFU) in the ACCCG after playing Syracuse and BC from the other division and losing your only competitive OOC game, you don't belong in the CFP. Period.
See 2009 ACCCG when 8-4 Clemson was ranked #25 and lost by 5 points to #12 Ga Tech, a team they had already lost to in the regular season.
Really don't get that argument. IIRC, the Braves won the WS this year, and had the worst record of any team that made the playoffs. Tampa was the 5th seed in the NFC, and won the Super Bowl last year. In 2015 UCONN wasn't ranked, there were a #7 seed in the East Region, and won the NCAA tournament. In every sport and every year, there are teams that don't have the best regular season (or even close to the best), yet they win the title. That can even happen this year. If UGA beats Bama on Saturday and Houston upsets Cincy or Baylor beat OK State, Bama is probably going to get in the CFP, even though UGA was clearly better than Bama during this season (and even beat them head to head on a neutral field to END the regular season). Even so, Bama would likely get a CFP bid, and if they beat UGA on the second crack, the Tide is the Champion, even though UGA had the better overall record and beat the Tide to end the season. That system seems more messed up to me than giving a bid to every team that "earned" a conference championship as part of an 8 team playoff.
Sankey apparently doesn't understand the word "earned".