TL;DR: The College Football Playoff committee colluded to make sure that an SEC team made it to the playoff, so undefeated Florida State University got cut, and the playoff is between Michigan, Washington, Texas and Alabama, with FSU and UGA as 5 and 6.
This only happened because Georgia lost to Alabama in the SEC championship game imo, but it’s still fucking horrendous that it did happen.
I don't follow like I used to, but if it was me I leave Texas out by virtue of having both a lower quality loss and lower quality wins than Alabama and to hell with head to head as it's so random in college football to even have head to head results across the entire field happen to be a top 4 team. Fair? Not really but it never is and I'm not a fan of ambiguous popularity contest championships anyway.
You never even get the benefit of a road game and an away game for each team, much less like a best of 5. I don't think individual game records are representative of anything in particular. Of course, people want to reward winning, and I don't blame them. But you might be more accurate if you used metrics. If it's not a formula, then how do we get upset about people's votes?