Chewbaccer
Illustrious Potentate
SOS only matters when the talking heads use it to disqualify G5 teams fron playoff talk.
Theres zero reason right now for a P5 to schedule anyone OOC. The one certainty the committee has shown us so far is you cant lose more than 1 game. So the risk of playing a great OOC game and losing FAR outweighs what you get for winning.
I always go back to 2017 where OSU lost to OU OOC. If they had played a G5 or middling P5 instead and nothing else changed OSU wouldve absolutely been chosen over Bama ( even with a blowout loss to Iowa )
Until you reward teams more for being willing to play big games than you penakize them for losing big games youll continue to see bad ooc. ( like if Bama goes ahead of a 12-1 Oregon this year )
On the flip side, had OSU not lost by 30 to Iowa they would have been in with that loss to OU. Even if they still lost to Iowa, but it was a flukey, last second FG loss instead of getting blown the fuck out.
Beating OU in Norman is also what got them in the 2016 playoffs, despite not winning their division.