What these 17ers are implicitly saying is

[coursesuper]

Only conference champions are going to get in the playoff. Best four be damn.

 

[Hammer Down]

Well we will not know who the best teams are until there is more cross pollination of teams across the country, so the committee has no choice. I am a big proponent of MSU scheduling easy, but if we do that we know we have to win the conference to get into the playoff. We cannot complain about another conference's champion leapfrogging over us if we refuse to play anyone outside our own conference.