I have doubts the playoff will favor a 3 loss team who played an extra really difficult OOC game over a 2 loss team in a power conference who didn't.
I wish they would take a page from college basketball and institute mandatory conference matchups for one OOC game, and do it based on the previous season's final comference standings. So every season the SEC, Big 10, Big 12, and ACC play an OOC game against a team that finished in the same spot in one of the other conferences.
So a given season the SEC and ACC are matched up where the previous year's champions play, the runner ups play, and app the way down the line until one conference runs out of teams. The Big 10 and Big 12 do the same. Then the next season it rotates where the SEC and Big 10 do it, etc.
That way everybody is playing a power conference team OOC and of similar stature, and the first 4 weeks of the season will be stacked with monster matchups for the fans.