College Football Playoff Rankings Running Thread

If they win, they're in. Whatever seed they get is just bulletin board fodder.

 

TCU and Baylor have the exact same schedule except for two games. Baylor played Northwestern State and Buffalo. TCU played Samford and Minnesota.

Apparently, TCU beating Minnesota > Baylor beating TCU.

So yeah, if the actual games don't matter, you might as well just go back to the computers, right?

 

The committee's members are very much the usual suspects. Some of the real college football mavens on this board probably named most of them before they were selected. So they are conventional wisdom personified. That in turn means their methodology in ranking teams is based on the same flawed methodologies of the polls that have been used since before they were born. Eye test! There's a real objective phrase. Nothing to me is more offensive than the notion that winning a game by 70 points should count for more than doing so by one point. The guy in the Times who writes about the playoff had it today that Alabama will likely be selected even if it loses to Missouri. Sorry, that's just establishment backscratching. Nothing would do more to convince fans the committee is a bag job.

 

A weekend prediction of sorts from ye olde chef.
Alabama beats Missouri
Oregon beats Arizona
TCU beats Iowa State
Georgia Tech beats Florida State
Wisconsin beats Ohio State
Baylor beats Kansas State

Sunday Morning, we wake up with the following:

1. Alabama
2. Oregon
3. Baylor
4. TCU

 

If all those things happen, that would be a fair result. But I'm not betting that parlay.

 

Under the old system, Alabama and FSU would be the two teams selected. And you know what? There would be little to no debate. A P5 undefeated defending national champion vs. the best team in the best conference. Computers don't hate.

 

Could see that plus with K State beating Baylor. Then, who's the fourth? Florida State still? K State? Ga Tech?

My dream scenario is still to see all of the top 6 lose, except TCu and then try to unravel that mess.

 

I think it is clear that the committee isn't using results but what they think should have happened.

Baylor beat TCU but it was flukey weird game. Florida State isn't doing things "the right way" and the committee is punishing them for it.

And they are undefeated, but no one seems to think they are really that good. A combination of luck and Winston carrying them in the second half. I have no doubt that if it was the old system, Florida State might be left out of the top two and not able to defend the title.

So to say that they would be left out of the top four isn't really that big of a stretch.

 

I don't see GT beating FSU. Paul Johnson lead GT teams seem to have a history of
blowing up in bowl type games. They are 1 and 5 in bowls since Johnson signed on.

 

If the committee is using should have instead of did as a rationale, it deserves to have everything blow up in its face. That's below even the standard used by 1950s polls.