Run with my hypothetical...
Say Baylor beats MSU in dominant fashion and Bama spanks tOSU. What does that tell the committee going into next year given the questions around the choice of tOSU over Baylor and TCU?
What would be the best barometer retrospectively to choose between relatively even weighted teams? If the above scenario plays out, many arguments could be made that they got it wrong. Given that, how do they fix what was "wrong" for future years?
One gets in trouble looking at things "retrospectively". It serves zero purpose other than

on message boards. This whole "x beat y and y beat z so x is better than z" nonsense is just that. The focus for TCU being out of the playoff isn't the committee, it's the B12. Hopefully they (B12) fixes that in the off season.