Yeah, that's always my problem with the divisional rotation stuff. It seems like you are always going to have a team that rotates into nothing but the soft underbelly, and if they run those will have a great record. But it's just kind of assumed that if the underbelly is in the SEC, well, it's still the SEC!
I mean, it's probably still a decent feat that you don't blow all of those games. But if somehow PSU/Mich/tOSU only lose round-robin to each other, I doubt there's any speculation that anyone but the B1G champion gets in.
(Or take the hypothetical where Illinois didn't lose to Indiana and somehow runs the table in a weak B1G West, then loses in the B1G title game. I can't imagine anyone would say they should still make a playoff, even if they lost to an unbeaten Ohio State.)
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