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On Sunday, a group of people will gather in a conference room and most likely make the choices we all expect them to make. This will leave many people unhappy, almost certainly including me. That group, of course, is the College Football Playoff committee, and as it culminates the fifth season of a new era in the sport, we have come to understand that it operates according to certain patterns: that strength of schedule tends to matter above all else, that statistics play some kind of role — even if there’s still no actual statistician on the committee itself — and that Group of Five teams are essentially locked out no matter what they do. The committee seems to believe that its charge is to choose the four “best” teams rather than the four “most deserving” teams, a distinction that once again will loom large when the conference championship games take place on Saturday. In an ideal world, those conference championship games would be stricken from the schedule in place of an eight-team playoff, as Yahoo’s Dan
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