left out becuase it was argued by the B1G, SEC, media, and committee that the B12 was only good enough to get 1 team in while the B1G got 4 and the SEC 3.
ASU was our conference champion. But lost.
How can we argue now that BYU or ISU, the runner ups, deserved in if our champion can't win a single game?
If ASU won, we would have had a better argument that a runner up belonged too.
Now next year the committee can say, see, we got it right last year.
If you win on the field you make the argument weaker.