When December 13 arrives, and the College Football Playoff committee convenes to select four teams, it will have some difficult decisions. It always does.
But this time, the committee will have fundamental decisions. Like this. Comparing a 10-game schedule (SEC, Big 12) against a seven-game schedule (Pac-12). Or an 11-game schedule (ACC) against an eight-game schedule (Big Ten).
That won’t be easy.
But it is easy, or at least far easier, to compare such discrepancies at this point in the season. Comparing teams that have played five games with teams that have played one game is not difficult.