That’s convenient when half the SEC is always ranked. lol. Like I said. Preseason and weekly pollings are so biased they impact the playoff selection committee. Get rid of this bullshit totally.
There's no legitimate reason other than Bama was the last team off the list last season and they're trying their damndest to make sure that doesn't happen two years in a row. I hope Georgia curbstomps them so hard that even Bama fans would be embarassed to make the field.
This is why we need a computer ranking. A computer wouldn't play games like this. Obviously the formula would be the subject of debate, as the BCS formula was. But it is preferable to this circus, where we don't know what actually matters, rankings randomly change for no reason, there are silly post-hoc justifications, and SEC schools are over-ranked. Etc.
They're under no obligation to drop them with a loss. This is more about protecting them from getting leapfrogged by BYU.
Honestly I think the auto-bids are a bigger problem than the subjective rankings.
If Bama loses and the committee really want s to look like a bunch of fools they will have a three loss team in the playoffs. There's no justification for a three loss team.
Yeah, but it's about protecting the SEC. Clay Travis said the SEC "wouldn't allow" Bama to be left out because they lost the CCG. I didn't realize the SEC made these decisions? Well, based on the new rankings, they appear to do.
+ Don’t rank anyone until week four.
In fairness, the advanced stats often have SEC teams with bad records more highly ranked than other teams. For example, Sagarin has Auburn at 26 despite being 5-7, which is ahead of Pitt at 30, for example. But neither ND nor Miami moved up after beating Pitt decisively.
Good point, advanced stats are basically being ignored by the committe right now, at least when discussing Oklahoma, Bama, and ND.
1 + 1 = SEC
We need to join the ACC for FB. That way when we roll through the pathetic conference we're guaranteed a spot in the playoffs.
Penn State might be the best 6-6 team of all time.
+ Ban FCS scheduling, or let them play the games but exclude them from the models. Miami should not get to count a win over Bethune-Cookman and then claim they have the same record as us.
Right, I'm saying it SHOULDN'T count in Strength of Schedule. Beating 6-win Bethune-Cookman is not the same thing as beat 6-win Penn State, yet when SOS is reduced to opponents' winning percentage, they're identical.
I think he means less about metrics and more about actual FBS wins. Haters love to point out the “unfairness” of ND not playing a CCG but most, if not all; those teams play at least one FCS opponent so if they play in their CCG they still play 12 FBS opponents. They should get zero credit for having an extra bye disguised as a football game.
