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Or even worse, a 4 loss conference champ? by KeoughCharles05

One need only look to the 2007 NFL season to see how this can be so. A six loss Giants team was pitted against an undefeated Patriots team in a single game match. That's just stupid. No reasonable person would suggest that the Giants had the better season, or were the better team.

Single game championships only work when both teams in them have a reasonable claim to being the better team. A 12 game playoff format with six slots for conference champs means that inevitably this will not be the case at some point.

Some near misses:
2006 Georgia Tech -- 9-3 in the regular season.
2008 BC -- 9-3 in the regular season.
2009 Clemson -- 8-4 in the regular season.
2010 FSU -- 9-3 in the regular season.
2011 UCLA -- 6-6 in the regular season.
2011 Clemson -- 9-3 in the regular season.
2012 UCLA -- 9-3 in the regular season.
2012 Georgia Tech -- 6-6 in the regular season.
2016 Va Tech -- 9-3 in the regular season.
2018 Northwestern -- 8-4 in the regular season.
2018 Pitt -- 7-5 in the regular season.
2019 Virginia -- 9-3 in the regular season.

Some actual bad teams that won conference championships:
2004 Pitt (8-3)
2005 FSU (8-4)
2008 Virginia Tech (9-4)
2012 Wisconsin (8-5)
2018 Washington (10-3) (and if they had lost, it would have been 10-3 Utah)
2020 Oregon (4-2) (a weird season, but two losses in six games is weak and should have barred admission to a 2020 playoff)

These things happen with some regularity. That five and six loss teams are playing for a conference championship shows what a joke those things are. As I mentioned, you could fix the worst parts of this by abandoning the division champ nonsense, or not recognizing special conference championship privileges for conferences that award championships to such obviously undeserving teams.