Much to my surprise the 2020 COVID season has been better than I expected. I thought for sure it would have been cancelled by now. I was way off. It appears we'll even crown a champion - albeit with an asterisk.
This COVID season has really turned into a competition of not only game planning and execution, but also maintaining the health of the players and coaches. Teams that took care of the COVID side of things have been able to play their games and get exposure. Others, PAC-12 and BIG-10, really won't get a real season given their late start and then COVID issue to boot. That has hurt their chances at being part of the playoff.
Do those teams deserve a shot? Yes - they do. Even in the BCS era undefeated Boise State and Hawaii and others were given their shot in BCS bowls. There's no reason we should not consider these non-Power 5 teams. They did what other teams didn't (schedule, wongames, stayed healthy) and we all want to know if they can hang with the big guys or not. Give 'em their chance to prove themselves.
BYU - Sure, it hasn't been the schedule they wanted but they put together a 10-game schedule and then executed at a high level. Regardless of the strength of your competition if you can execute with accuracy like they have, and on both sides of the ball, then you got something good going on.
GEORGIA - The Dawgs just weren't ready for this year. What we fans thought would be another SEC-East championship year at the least started out slow and worrisome. Bama and UF took advantage of the early and evident weaknesses. But, it looks like they'll end on a good note and high hopes for next year given the youth of the team.