It's no doubt that I'm a Mississippi State fan. I wear maroon every Friday, I have a cowbell, and I even have a degree from MSU. I understand if you think I'm biased. Heck, I'm posting this in the FWtCBT fanposts section. It would be easy to assume that I'm looking through maroon-colored glasses here, but I'm not. To me, this is just common sense.

Whether a team wins its conference championship should not be a factor in the selection of four teams for the College Football Playoff.

The clear intention of the College Football Playoff selection committee is to select the best overall teams in college football. Every single criterion they use helps them to determine which teams are the best - record, strength of schedule, head-to-head matchups, record against common opponents, game control - except for one. For whatever reason, conference championships were chosen as another criterion for the committee to use. Why is this bad? Conference championships are not, in their current format, played between the two best teams in a conference.

In all Power 5 conferences except the Big 12, there is a conference championship between the leaders of two separate divisions within the conference. Those leaders are determined solely by their record within their conference. A team's overall record is not considered. In that sense, a team who is 9-3 overall could be ahead of a team with an overall record of 11-1 as long as their losses came out of conference. Few would argue that the 9-3 team is better than the 11-1 team, but the 11-1 team would not have the chance to play for a conference championship due to its loss within its conference. Put simply, conference championships do not take the entire season into account as conference play only accounts for 67-75% of a season.

As conferences push to improve their strength of schedules, many are asking schools to schedule more competitive games from outside of their conference. This will raise the chance that teams with worse overall records may get into conference championship games over better teams with minimally worse conference records. The problem will only get worse.

The College Football Playoff is intended to bring in the best four teams in the country based on how those teams have performed for an entire season. The Power 5 conferences do not intend to bring in the best two overall teams from their conference for their championship games, and, because of that, conference championships should not be considered when determining the best overall teams for the College Football Playoff. It's just common sense.