2:23 PM ET Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby would like some clarity from College Football Playoff officials on the importance of conference championship games and strength of schedule, he told ESPN on Sunday after the selection committee put 11-1 Ohio State at No. 3 in spite of the Buckeyes not winning the Big Ten East Division or their conference title. “Obviously I acknowledge the difficulty of the task, but I’m not sure what I advise my members right now because we’ve been telling them that nonconference schedules matter and one of the four has an exceedingly weak nonconference schedule,” he said, referring to No. 4 Washington, which notched wins over Rutgers, Idaho and FCS Portland State. “And we’ve been telling them the 13th data point matters, and we added a conference championship game because of that. We’ve always heard that conference championships matter and division championships matter, and now it’s…
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