Running CFB playoff thread

A place for discussion and debate of the rankings and the adjustments over the next three games. In the meantime, Pat Forde nails this, including the effects of my pet peeve, the Preseason Top 25 and its ongoing effect on ranking teams based on what they have done this season.


First College Football Playoff Rankings Still Favor Blueblood Programs

 

HA! The newest story in that roundup is a BYU-Utah preview, and I mistook the word "Moneyline" for "Mormon Line."

 

The playoff, like all of big-time college football now, is a made=for-TV product. The familiar faces, that is, the programs that are always on TC, are naturally going to get the breaks over the newbies.

 

TC?

 

Theodore Calvin?

 

I don't watch as much TC as I used to.

 

Go Navy!

 

The Channel.

Throwback to early 1980s marketing.

 

This week's rankings are pretty much proof that they are making up the "criteria" as they go along with the end result to get in all the teams that they want in the playoff.

 

I feel like we are all being asked to play along with the polite fiction of Indiana as a rock-solid team when their first real test will be at Ohio State. Figure a four-touchdown loss there, a bounce back win against Purdue, and then teams 9-12 all praying they get sent to Bloomington for the first round.

 

I think they are. At the very least outside of last week, they did what those teams do -- beat the crap out of everyone on their schedule. theres no fluke play / bad call / bunch of close games where you can say well they could be 7-3.

I wish at the least they had penn state or notre dame this year because i think indiana might be better than both

 

Dumb question, but why is Army not being discussed? Undefeated, blowing out opponents and has a similar resume to Indiana. The schedule leaves a lot to be desired, but they’re dojng what they have to do. Now, I’m going to pray to the football gods that they beat ND.