The 12-team playoff is probably a great idea, and yet it's surely already been warped by both NIL madness and conference re-scrambling.
In the future, I'd like a hard-and-fast rule that if you lose three times before your conference title game, yerr outta here!
If you lose a third conference game, including the conference title game, yerrr outta there too!
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney had a bad look when a couple days after he made headlines for complaining about the CFP being a "SEC - Big Ten Ball" or whatever; his home field got rushed by perenially-mid South Carolina's jubilant fans. Give them his spot in the playoffs
Upsets are always possible: the 2007 Fiesta Bowl where Boise State upset Oklahoma on January 1st in prime time at least some little precursor to all this upheaval.
I'd much rather invite any 1-loss G5 team over a 3-loss P4 team (really, P2 team). I'd probably prefer 1-loss G5 teams over any conferences 4th place team. Don't care that teams like Alabama and Georgia only accrue "quality losses," lol what a farce.