crowd thinks) in that he is implicitly negating the most problematic interpretation of the Selection Committee Protocol for ND, that if team A and team B are comparable and team A is a conference champion and team B is not than that trumps the other tie-breakers, including head-to-head, because the preamble to the Protocol states, the Committee has "flexibility and discretion to select a non-champion or independent under circumstances where that particular non-champion or independent is unequivocally one of the four best teams in the country." How, if the teams are comparable so that the tie-breaking criteria are needed in the first place, could independent or conference non-champion team B be unequivocally better than conference champion team A and so be included in the Playoff at team A's expense? How would the Committee answer that question, surely to be raised by the power 5 conferences with a 1-loss champion excluded from the Playoff.