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@GBAL You would think that, but as he explained in the story, they are different. One takes into account the cumulative points scored and points allowed, while the other one is strictly a metric of the level of schedule difficulty
College football has always had—and will always have—a figure-skating way of choosing a champion, where Russian judges can influence the outcome. Choosing teams to play in the championship, whether it's two, four, or twelve, has been and will be subjective because there's no way to equalize the schedules. Each conference controls its own schedule and teams within each conference control who they play. The people on the committees are subjective based on where they grew up and the conferences they're most familiar with.
The NFL has 32 teams with 32 owners, all with one goal: to make money and build a championship. The schedules are set by the league, and teams play several common opponents. There are 136 FBS teams (CFP eligible), and they have different goals in football. Some schools are happy to field a team, others want to beat their rivals or win a conference championship and others want a national championship. Even in the "power conferences," only four or five schools really compete for a national championship. In addition, most Division I athletic programs are not profitable, so the people who run the schools —school presidents — are not looking at football the way fans do. They generate a lot more money from their endowments than from sports.