Nobody has any business getting the 4 byes, because the method by which they are chosen is crap. The Top 8 or 9 teams in the country are all from 2 conferences. Only 2 of them will get byes.
So you think they punish SMU that much for losing an extra game they earned? Should they ask themselves why Alabama isn’t playing today?
3-losses + 3 quality wins > 2-losses + 0 quality wins.
Surely you don’t believe this. The rankings are the rankings. In what world is the winner of a 15/16 matchup jumping the #10 team that best the #20 team?
If that’s how you feel… why not army.
I think Army should be in over some of the three loss or two loss teams. As a fan I’d love to see Army roll into Athens or Austin and take their best shot. Until we separate the power conferences from the also rans then all 135 D1 teams should be treated the same. They’re playing by the same rules. I’d personally rather see Alabama in the playoffs over SMU but it’s just personal preference and personal preferences and advertising dollars shouldn’t affect the rankings but they do.
Why would they be anticlimactic? For the first time everyone of them has something at stake. I’m not sure I’d even watch this Big 12 championship game in a 4 team playoff.
Like I said, I might be the only person who feels that way, but I do. I think it happened after they picked Alabama. SOS
Well then. 1 loss < 2 loss, too. So, I fully expect Boise State to get the #2 overall seed over UGA, if they beat Texas. I mean that’s all we’re looking at, right? Just 2 raw numbers?
It’s not a punishment to be ranked lower after losing a game. No one was weeping for Georgia last year. They knew damn well they had to win, and they didn’t.
Really? This is your argument? You pick the year that 2 teams who played in and won major conference championship games leapfrogged a team that didn’t play in such a game as an example that the title games don’t matter?
I guess it would be qualitatively assigned and not quantifiable applied. I prefer the mathematical approach to these type of things. As another poster says it's a beauty contest of opinion based on preconceived notions based on recruiting program prestige and history. What are the records and common opponents this season and what are the win loss records of opponents etc. not just uga has a bunch of past season wins and prestige and recruiting rankings. Just on preconceived notions Pitt and uga are probably easier pick out but harder win you talk say SMU penn state Arizona state Colorado uga ole miss Alabama Boise army. What makes those programs better than one another just this season?
You decided what my argument was. You don't need anyone else to argue with yourself.
It is quantifiably applied.
I didn’t decide anything. You just presented yet another time that the committee behaved rationally and following a clear criteria (considering not just overall record but SOS, etc.) and yet still somehow judged it as them “doing whatever they want”.
I think it depends on who the losses are too are each schedule and their ranking and win loss records. Hard to penalize a team for their schedule I get that schedules are not the same but if they are considered power 4. What are the parameters used in strength kf schedule? Rankings? Win loss records? Both? Rankings can be subjective due to preseason and coaching press biases
I don't agree with your summary of my viewpoint. For example, you seem to think I'm saying title games don't matter.
What they are considerdd means nothing. Let’s do away with the word power 4. They played the schedule they played.. and it wasn’t good.
Exactly. The term P4 is a misnomer anyway. There’s a Power 2, a Next 2, and the rest.
Only way to know is taking away conferences and playing a season round Robbin and that moves around country wide. In your view Texas didn't play a good schedule either. People argue Indiana didn't either but both are still good football teams that won a lot of games and teams like uga bama are not perfect and struggled against a lot of teams this year so "good" schedules are subjective. More parity than ever before in college ball
Texas didn’t play a great schedule. But it’s still ranked 30 spots higher than SMU’s.
a 3 loss Texas us out.. a 2 loss Indiana is out. Their schedules allowed them less margin for error than a Alabama or Georgia did
It took uga 8 ots to beat Georgia tech this year and lost to an ole miss team who lost to Kentucky Florida and lsu. None of those teams are good. Also lost to bama who lost to Tennessee Vandy struggled against a usf team well into the third quarter. The sec is proving it aint what it used to be. Do yall not recall that Michigan made bama their beotch last year in the playoff? Uga is not what they were. All of them have lost to like 6-6 team or got close to it the weaker sec teams like us also got boat races so that doesn't help either.
You can’t be serious.. the sec is showing it’s not what it was?
Well then please expand on the purpose of you posting the 2014 rankings for the final 2 weeks with the caption “they’re going to do whatever they want”.
This takes the title for the most laughably basic post of the week.
Why do you think you were so confident/wrong on this?
