Why do people think the committee is the problem? The problem is the stupid autobids and the schedules everyone is playing. We still had two P4 leagues play just 8 conference games this season. Have every P4 play a 10 game conference slate - or have a 9 + 1 or 2 model with cross-league matchups. Ditch the CCGs. Add a couple more teams to the CFP field if you want - 14 or 16 or whatever - even 24 would be fine if you get rid of these superfluous games that barely fucking matter and are mainly causing problems.
"Well you can't just hand out the conference championship based on tiebreakers and standings" except we're already fucking doing that. It's not like Duke had to settle it on the field vs. Miami or SMU. BYU and Alabama got their asses whipped and one of them still isn't making the playoff and one of them still IS making the playoff. Ohio State and Indiana are both still going to get 1st round bye.
It isn't how teams are being ranked that's the problem - it's how this entire thing is structured. It's easier to rank 12 teams when you actually get to rank 12 instead of 10 and there are a lot more data points with the P4 teams. No matter how you rank them a bunch of people are going to bitch about it because this is college football. You can at least put in a system that removes as much guesswork and coinflipping as possible and doesn't put in a team like JMU who barely beat Wazzu at home like 3 weeks ago that's going to get fucking smoked.