Resume appears to be the primary criteria, with the eyeball test as an adjustment factor.
There's been a great deal of angst over the last 14 hours, as there always is, with the release of the first CFB Playoff Rankings last night. As expected, the loudest cries are from those who think the Big 12 is getting shafted again and the committee's clearly biased in favor of Alabama.
The catch is, the numbers tell a different story altogether.
Computer systems, in and of themselves, are not the be-all, end-all. No one computer system holds all the answers to the questions of the football universe; each one, individually, has some flaw, some thing which it values just a little too much or not quite enough.