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The problem I have with the scheduling argument is it punishes this year's players for what is a long-term strategic decision by the athletic department. When you're winless (0-12) three years ago, does it make any sense to be looking at scheduling to be in the playoff? The quality of a team changes far too much and too quickly, and scheduling is done too far in advance to have any sort of proper evaluation done based on that. Citing their lifetime record against P5 schools is even worse. Any vaguely sensible system must be based on evaluating this year's team only - I don't care how many championships they've won or not won in the past, or whether the team is Bama, Clemson, OSU, or SW Podunk State College. I care whether this team, on the field, earned a spot in the playoff or not. Period. Nothing else should matter. The whole 'beat big conference teams in a few more bowl games' just doesn't even address the main issue.
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