[Goose]

Why the hell should Georgia get a mulligan nobody else gets?

I feel certain that you know that "everybody else" (except Cincinnati) also lost a game, which is arguably the mulligan that they in fact did get. It is certainly rational to define the conference championship game as "definitive", since we will consider the CFP games themselves as definitive. That hasn't been done, so the "mulligan" extends to the championship games. Does any of this make "sense"? I don't think so. Unless a given team was undefeated, on some day of the year, some other team was better, because they defeated them. In order to really "know" the truth, you need to play the same games over and over until the p value is adequate. Of course, that wouldn't help even if you could do it, because the teams change skill set and even composition week to week.

That's why I say this is for fun, because it can't be science.

[Goose]

Why the hell should Georgia get a mulligan nobody else gets?

I feel certain that you know that "everybody else" (except Cincinnati) also lost a game, which is arguably the mulligan that they in fact did get. It is certainly rational to define the conference championship game as "definitive", since we will consider the CFP games themselves as definitive. That hasn't been done, so the "mulligan" extends to the championship games. Does any of this make "sense"? I don't think so. Unless a given team was undefeated, on some day of the year, some other team was better, because they defeated them. In order to really "know" the truth, you need to play the same games over and over until the p value is adequate. Of course, that wouldn't help even if you could do it, because the teams change skill set and even composition week to week.

That's why I say this is for fun, because it can't be science.