There is going to be a huge campaign to denigrate the PAC 12 and Big 10 if the
other conferences play and they don't. Like Dabo here saying that the best 4 teams are going to play anyway. The long term ramifications for the conferences that don't play is going to be big.
Clemson's Dabo Swinney said the absence of two of the five power conferences will not diminish the meaning of winning a national title, saying, "Whoever wins it, wins it. That's the champ."