COLUMBUS, Ohio -- What would a team reaching the College Football Playoff without a conference championship look like?
Selection committee protocol leaves room for a non-champ that is "unequivocally one of the four best teams in the country."
What's your gauge for "unequivocal?"
"It depends on all the other teams I'm going up against and their résumés and how they've performed," selection committee chairman Jeff Long said Tuesday night when I asked what that team would look like to him. "There isn't just one. There is not just one résumé that would get a non-championship (team in).