If a 2 loss team goes to the playoff they need a better resume than UGA does this year.
Here’s a scenario when a 2 loss team advances to the playoff:
-Auburn loses a neutral site game to start the year to a big name opponent (Washington, FSU, Wisconsin, etc..)
-Come back and win 3 games over top 15 ranked opponents but fall to a top 5 ranked UGA in Athens. Still win their division.
-Play for an SEC title against top 5 UGA, and actually win the game.
-2 loss conference champion, with 4 top 15 wins.
And even with that, it would still depend on how everything else shakes out.
In my opinion BEST 4 IN depends on BODY OF WORK. It’s based on a whole season. Not who you FEEL like would win games in the playoffs after the conference championships. If that were the case, you could argue for a team that started 1-3 and then won 9 straight. ‘Nobody wants to play them right now so they’re in.’
UGA is a great team but they dug themselves a hole, needed to win yesterday, and didn’t. Now the team that they eeked out a win against last year (Oklahoma), who just won their conference, and has one loss gets their shot.