You don't take rankings in a playoff scenario. That makes no sense. You take conference winners or what's the freaking purpose of conferences? In a 8 team playoffs, the 6 BCS conference winners plus two at large conference winners from the others. Can use rankings to do seeds and decide the nonbcs bids.
You don't win your conference, you don't go. Wining the conference should be what the regular season is all about. Not what a poll thinks of you.
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