leeway and forgiveness.

I don't care how "good" a conference is, you had your chance to be a top 2-3 team in your conference and you simply weren't, why the heck do you deserve a spot in a playoff.

I know its all about money/prestige, but its baloney, honestly I'm thinking it should be the 4 P4 Conference Champs, and if the runner up has 10+ wins they should get an auto qualifier as well. Then you can have the highest ranked G5 Champ, ND if they qualify, then 2-7 at large bids (if the conference runner ups don't have the 10+ wins).

Letting the SEC and BIG get 8-9 of the 12 spots is just so bad when its frankly impossible to truly know which teams are better 100% because they don't play each other or any common opponents

Of course the BIG and SEC are going to dominate and be a self fulfilling prophecy when they get 90% of the bids and all the home games, it doesn't actually let us compare conferences at all, let the top 2 teams from each conference compete and let it play out on the field not stupid eye tests and subjective data comparisons