To be selected as the final two, it was a hybrid of polls, computer ranking and ranking by series of experts. VT got in during a curious set of events including several losses by big programs. That got VT into the national championship.

Now look at it, its structured that the same POWER programs participate and there is no way for a out of the national regime like VT to play in the playoffs of Championship

IT will always be Alabama, GA, LSU, Oklahoma Clemson or Ohio State and Notre Dame and sometimes designated PAC 12 school