Ridiculous bias man 
FYI, for those that want to give the Big 10 4 auto bids in a 4422 scenario - that would have bumped out Utah for USC. So it would have hurt the Big 12 this year with these final rankings.
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Yeah, that’s a terrible idea.
Go to 16 teams, let in the top-ranked 6 conference champions, and see how it works. Or expand the field even more if you want to have multiple auto-bids from conferences.
The problem with the whole thing isn’t conference championship games or the size of the field - it’s the inherent brokenness of the ranking system that consistently overrates teams solely because of their names.
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I am fine with the minimum of top 5 ranked conference champions. If more than 5 are in the top 20, then they get in as well.
Then cap the number of teams from one conference to 4. If you can’t finish of the top 4 of your conference, then you have no business taking a spot from another team that might be more deserving. I say this since there are so little inter-conference games to get a true comparison of conference strength and we are stuck with the hugely biased system in play currently.
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How about we do what college basketball does and have quad rankings.
You get scored based on road, home, neutral site etc games.
All this SEC/Big 10 teams starting out with 7+ teams in the preseason top 25 rankings ruins it.
No polls until the 1st week of October so the Big 10/SEC don’t value “Quality Losses” to overrated teams.
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