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I believe the 2 best teams should play for the national championship, I also believe you have to win your conference to play in the championship as well. However, Alabama would be the best team in any other conference, so if LSU wins the SEC, it should be LSU and Alabama.

I will say this though, if Houston goes undefeated and wins their bowl game and the national champ has 1 loss, then I'd split the title with Houston. I'm not a fan of having a national champ with 1 loss while there is still a team out there that's undefeated. What more could they do? Can't really change the schedule midseason.

I like you post, but I don't agree with the one-loss scenario. I'm in complete agreement with you that the 2 best teams in the nation should play each other for the title and the winner of that is the champion.

I kind of use this analogy that you and I could be more closely familiar with. Put 2A football into this situation. With no playoffs to decide a champion, we would have to pick the top 2 teams to play each other. I'm not aruging who the top two teams were at the end of the season, but for arguments sake, follow me with this. In you analogy, Cov. Holy Cross and NCC would square off in a 1 versus 2 battle to decide the 2A champion. In a consolation "Bowl" game, Owen Co. would play Newport. In this situation, a team that wins the 1 versus 2 has three losses, yet Gallatan wins and ends the season undefeated. Knowing the competition level that both teams played throughout the season, there is a clear-cut decision as to who the BEST team was, yet you would have split the championship just because a team had a loss(es).

I think we know that either LSU or Bama is "That Much" better than Houston. I could not reward Houston only because they stayed undefeated.

Fair argument???