You are the pollster: 0-Loss vs. 1-Loss Debate

[caretaker1]

In college football, going undefeated, particularly in a BCS conference, is a special achievement and creates a presumption that such a team should play for the National title. However, that presumption may be overcome by teams with 1-Loss. I thought about what factors weigh in:

1) Strength of Schedule required to be better. The one loss team in question must have had a harder schedule to be considered, IMO. This brings up two interesting questions:

a) What do you look at to determine who had the harder schedule?
Each individual game? Computer ranked schedule difficulty?

b) How much of a harder schedule does it have to be? This refers
particularly to computer rankings. If the 0-Loss team had the 30th
and the 1-loss team had the 29th that seems almost irrelevant,
however if the 1-loss team had the toughest schedule in the nation,
would that be enough? Where do you draw that line?

2) Who the 1-loss team lost to? Does it matter if they lost to an undefeated
team (ala Texas) rather than a below average team (ala USC)? How much?

3) What if the 1-loss team would be in a rematch with an undefeated team that
had already beaten them? To what extent should the 1-loss team be viewed as
having already lost their chance because they played that team?

4) What about common opponents of both the 0-loss and 1-loss team?

How do you view these issues? Do you add other considerations (aside from fandom of course)?