Your statement that just because a team wins a conference championship that by default does not mean that team is better than other conferences' also rans is correct. However that like any other part of your arguments has nothing to do with the subject being discussed.
Conference A champion may not be as good as Conference B runner-up, but how in the world would we know.
What is being attempted is to identify the best team, and to declare them power-5 national champion. The bullcrap about identifying the 4 best teams is nothing but a subjective circle jerk. We are looking to identify the single, best, championship team.
Make it a prerequisite of winning a conference championship to qualify and subjectivity is practically eliminated. Guessing which conference champion is the 5th best is the single subjective ingredient.
Everything we do now is loaded with subjective opinions. You can't actually tell me when someone says "passed the eye test" you don't feel an overwhelming need to puke.
By the way. Penn State and Ohio State did not tie for the eastern division championship last year. Penn State won the division. Both teams had the same conference record, but since the Big10 does not use subjectivity to determine their division and conference champions there was a set of criteria available to objectively determine the division champion. That was champion Penn State.
Using you thought process there should have been some sort of vote to determine the Eastern Division champion and it would make absolute sense to vote on who we thought was the conference champion.
