and thus ineligible for any post regular season play or a conference game that would, with their current record, have all but assured them a CFP position. I like ND and really admire their new coach, but this decision to "go it alone" does occasionally hurt them (it did not last year, however, so this is not an all-encompassing bias as suggested). I do agree that Miami needed to come in ahead of ND. I would, in no way, want to be on that committee, though.
But, I do NOT want to see the conference championships done away with and I do fear that is the direction we are headed.
On edit, I just saw your comment that ND and Miami should have been AHEAD of the top 5 schools. That is f..king insane. (and that does not mean that ND, if it had qualified for the CFP would not have had a chance to win it all--just that TODAY and based on the entire season, they have not shown that they are ahead of IN, Ohio, UGA, Texas Tech, or Oregon). Had I seen that first, I would not have bothered to try to make a coherent and sincere response to your post. 
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