Yeah in a “rich get richer “ scenario I can certainly see the hoks and sparty sneaking ahead of OSU, PSU, USC, and Michigan.Traveling to the west coast also makes for weird results. Most big ten teams don’t have great records playing away games out there. Once the playoff expands and losses become less important it won’t matter as much but it’s still a trap. To your point you could have a school like Iowa/wisky/sparty never actually play in the big ten championship game but get into the playoff every once in awhile.