Terry, your posts are always well balanced and logical. The problem the Big 12 ran into this year is that the best teams were all in the same division. I think the computer polls are more of a problem than the human polls. The computer polls knocked USC out the year that LSU and Oklahoma played and the computer polls favored Oklahoma over Texas this year and if that had not been true I believe the conference tie breaker would have gone to Texas. If there is ever going to be a playoff it's going to involve a lot of give and take to arrive at a system. I believe that one of the things in play will be using the conference championships to arrive at some of the participants. I know Corey doesn't agree with that but I think it is very workable to put together a plan to use the weekend where there is now conference championships as narrowing the field down from 16 to 8 teams, then use the existing bowl system to go from there.