I know a lot of people don't like polls, but if it were to be based completely from W-L records, every title-hopeful would be scrambling to play the bottom teams. The UCF athletic department phones would be going crazy! They could fill up their schedule for years. Why would the number of games be irrelevant? Can one team only play 9 games and another play 12? I think this would have to be standardized somehow. This is a lot of travelling. A team that qualifies for the conference title game would have to go this route: 1 - Conference Title game 2 - Play in the Round of 8 game 3 - Round of Four game 4 - National Championship. I think you would also have a hard time convincing the fans to travel to that many games in the timeframe of a month or so. That gets expensive. So, the second-place team in a conference - Michigan, for example - would get no bowl game but Houston would? I don't think the alum would go for this.