If you've been playing poorly lately and you get blown out in the conference championship game and you were one of the last three teams with a chance to get in but only two will go and dropping you will avoid the tricky conundrum of picking just one of Miami v Notre Dame ?
Anything is possible, the committee has guidelines of course but sometimes they conflict (like Texas' loss to OSU - can't convince me they discounted that one) and they just seem to be making it up as they go along, then trying to rationalize the decision.
Personally I'd take Miami and ND over Bama and then the committee can blame it on Bama's "terrible" loss to FSU but who the hell knows. You can say they lack "good wins" and leave off ND or Miami easily enough.
I've got Indiana 1, OSU 2, Georgia 3, Texas Tech 4, then Oregon, Ole Miss, A&M in a 5-7 cluster, Oklahoma at 8, then any two of ND, Bama, Miami (guessing Bama is odd man out but nothing would surprise at this point).
The killer for us Texas fans is we beat Oklahoma and A&M by a combined 50-23 yet they're going and we're not.
/end of late night rant LOL