That’s fair. We might be looking at the same exact final anyway. No matter the tournament size UGA probably would have still been the seed they were (even though the lost to Bama in the CCG).CFB is still like this. All the way up to rivalry week and the CCG, multiple teams had their chance in getting into the top 4 but lost. UGA and Bama are the teams that got hot going 13-1 and now there in the Championship game
This might not fix that. But both SEC teams having to run more of a gamut to the final would silence the griping to a good degree.