There is a united front including CFP, NCAA, SEC, B1G, the Networks and other gravy-train media to push this "from here on out" cover story. It's a deliberate deception.
There is evidence and multiple allegations that
last year's playoff were tainted by Michigan's actions. Particularly illegally stealing signs of likely playoff opponents and providing those signs to their opponents.
It has already happened. That's the news that was dropped like a hot potato when the implications were quickly considered, and there's been a full-court-press to bury the story ever since. That was the moment the false and dishonest "
before the playoffs are affected" mantra was born and put on a loop by all parties.
What should the NCAA penalty be for
having already tainted the playoffs and championship? That would be a interesting discussion.
As far as people being "disgusted," does that affect anything at all? Everyone knew Kansas cheated massively in basketball, taking huge sums from their shoe maker for illegal use, among other things; but Kansas still played in and kept their crooked, tainted recent basketball title. And people all over the country are disgusted by the flagrantly biased and season-altering officiating that Bama has gotten for years, and what difference has that ever made?
It's all about which teams are in the cheat-with-impunity category with these violations and who is not. Which is a manifest and extreme form of rigging outcomes.