As heated as the debate got over Georgia, Oklahoma and Ohio State for the final College Football Playoff spot, the selection committee did exactly what it was tasked to do.
The group decided no team was unequivocally better than the other. So it went to its list of protocols, choosing the Sooners based on their conference championship. In hindsight, it should have been fairly obvious this is what they would end up doing, considering they telegraphed their move last Tuesday, ranking Oklahoma ahead of Ohio State.
Georgia nearly pulling the upset on No. 1 Alabama may have complicated matters a little, but the truth is, the committee would have set a bold precedent had it put in a two-loss, non-conference champion into the playoff over two conference champions with one loss apiece.