What’s worse is that the Big-10 and Pac-12 gave up their traditional, and lucrative, New Years Bowl (Rose, of course) and get shut out, not only of the playoff but the NY-6 games.
Hopefully this debacle will motivate the conferences to push on the CFP committee to get an 8-team playoff and auto bids for P5 conference champions. At-large can then come from the highest ranked teams remaining.