[DC 86]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you schedule a difficult schedule and don't win enough, you can miss out on bowls altogether, or at least better bowls. If you schedule an easier schedule and go undefeated, the weaker schedule means you're left out of the playoff picture. 

Well, there's never been an undefeated P5 (or Notre Dame) team that's been left out of the playoff, and there certainly won't be with the expanded playoff.

The committee has talked incessantly about rewarding teams that schedule tough opponents but their actions have been the opposite since the inception of the CFP. Losses have carried far more weight than "good wins" and the selections have more or less strictly followed W/L records without much regard to strength of schedule. Perhaps this is changing, but at this point the best path to the CFP unfortunately consists in part on a weak OOC schedule that results in 3-4 likely wins.

[DC 86]

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you schedule a difficult schedule and don't win enough, you can miss out on bowls altogether, or at least better bowls. If you schedule an easier schedule and go undefeated, the weaker schedule means you're left out of the playoff picture. 

Well, there's never been an undefeated P5 (or Notre Dame) team that's been left out of the playoff, and there certainly won't be with the expanded playoff.

The committee has talked incessantly about rewarding teams that schedule tough opponents but their actions have been the opposite since the inception of the CFP. Losses have carried far more weight than "good wins" and the selections have more or less strictly followed W/L records without much regard to strength of schedule. Perhaps this is changing, but at this point the best path to the CFP unfortunately consists in part on a weak OOC schedule that results in 3-4 likely wins.