The committee veered from it this very year. If anyone cared about "best team" Oklahoma or Michigan would be playing instead of Washington, despite the fact that they dont actually deserve it and Washington does. When OU can go undefeated in a P5 conference and ride a 9 game blowout streak all the way to a Sugar Bowl game vs a 4 loss Auburn team, thats a problem. Why would anyone ever challenge themselves outside of the conference ever again? If Im Oklahoma im buying out every big game i have and replacing them with sun belt teams.

>>If the "best" team in the Big 10 didnt win it, why would
>>anyone go to war for the them ACTUALLY being the best? They
>>had 3 months to prove it and failed.

>this just doesn't make any sense. did wisconsin fail less than
>OSU did since they made the big 10 championship despite 2 conf
>losses to the best teams in the conference?

Everyone failed except PSU.

>also what happens when osu and mich are undefeated and ranked
>1 and 2 but one of them can't go to the champ game because of
>divisional alignment?

Thats what i want. Biggest stakes in the fucking world for the best rivalry in football. Win and move on, lose and dont.

>getting hung up on the conf champions doesn't help anything in
>regards to crowning the best team or creating the most
>compelling matchups that people will actually stay home on new
>years eve to watch.

Im not sure about that. The "compelling matchups" is meaningless as a factor for deciding who gets to keep playing. And there is no reason the games have to be on NYE unless the networks cowtow to the NFL forever. But an NCAA football tournament? You dont think people would watch that?

The bottom line is that crowning the "best team" requires subjectivity and is stupid. UCONN wasnt the "best" team in the country in 2011. But no one cares. Because they are champions.