Yeah, but you keep bringing up hypotheticals based on past divisional winners who, predictably, got beat in the CCG.
Having a CCG makes it much less likely that any of these teams will actually pull off that hypothetical upset. It can happen, sure... But will it happen often enough to be anything more than a once every half-decade outlier?
1996 4 loss texas upsets 11-1 nebraska.
2001 3 loss lsu upsets 11-1 tenn
2003 3 loss ksu upsets 12-0 ou
2005 4 loss fsu upsets va tech
for almost upsets
2018 3 loss utah 7pt game
2017 3 loss stan 3pt game
2016 3 loss va tech 7 pt game
2012 6 loss ga tech 6 pt game
2012 3 loss ucla 3 pt game
2009 4 loss clemson 3pt game
2007 3 loss tenn 7pt game
it's within 1 score from being every other year almost.
it's an odd data set. go back more than 10 years, there's only 2 confs with ccg. go back 25 years, and only 1. go back 30, and none. the "almost" is happening a lot more often, while the "actuals" go back pretty far. more frequency makes sense with increase in confs with ccg in last decade, but it's curious that the actual results didn't also follow that increased pattern.