I don't want the selection for the championship game to be a popularity contest either. But there has to be a better way than the one that ended up with a completely unranked team playing before four other teams with better records.
There was also some goofiness with Virginia who lost to NC State but that didn't count as an in-conference loss.?
It just seems like someone figuring out how to sort though tie breakers could come out with something a little more relevant to the end result. You could do out-of-conference record, Overall record, overall FBS record, etc. Any of those would have put in a more qualified team without it being a beauty contest.
It is just a bad look to advance a team that was clearly the fourth or fifth best team in the conference.
I should have been more clear about Miami playing in the conference championship. I didn't mean to assume it would be an automatic win. I just meant that it would have simplified things because the winner of that game (say Virginia or Miami) would have gotten one of the auto-bids and would have bumped JMU out. The fact that Duke was so far out of the rankings opened the door for JMU. I think any other combination of ACC teams would have been advanced to the CFP
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