The College Football Playoff Committee seems so ridiculously biased given the selections they have made early in their existence, so why not scrap the idea. Not the playoff, just the committee. I do not understand why they didn't just use the BCS computer model or something similar to select the top four teams for the playoff? Thoughts?
Just a thought before the comittee releases the first rankings...
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Hell yeah man, we'd be a shoo-in since ISU invented the computer. Who do we petition?
I think the only hope ISU would have of making a playoff this year is by a committee. If we won out, both of our losses would be to very mediocre teams. Our only hope would be a committee that would take in to consideration some of the obvious changes and progressions our team has made.
Dumb question, but let's say they ranked some good MAC team as #1 in preseason. Then the team that beat them would be highly ranked, and so on... once a team has a ranking and few losses what really makes a team deserve a higher rank?
Apparently you haven’t looked at Georgia, Ohio State, or Wisconsin’s resume thus far. They’re laughable. The current system is as broken as the old one.
The biggest problem with it was often the human voters and the fact that it only allowed 2 spots.
Now we went to an even smaller number of human voters and removed the computer component.
Yeah, the CFP is like the Harris poll, full-on...the human poll that screwed up the BCS.
I tend to believe that a biased committee was exactly the goal: protect the power schools and make sure the national interest (and TV ratings) are high.
Especially when you look at how lopsided the committee makeup has been with respect to the B1G and SEC. They weren't even trying to hide what was going on.
The BCS formula of 2/3 national polling and 1/3 computer average was completely fine. It was the 2 team playoff that was idiotic.
- 4 BCS bowls (before they added the 5th), each is first round of an 8 team playoff.
- 5 auto bids to conference champ
- 3 highest non champs in BCS ranking get in which would have included the best Boise St and Utah teams when they were title contenders. Would also cover ND/BYU.
- Use BCS ranking to seed the 8 teams.
- Throw a bone to the other 5 conference and guarntee a spot to one team if it finishes top 10 or top 12 if you want.
It was beyond easy. This committee has been and will continue to be a disaster. If you must have a small committee for some reason then let each conference chose its own representative and give each conference one rep to form a 10 member committee.
Well any 2 team playoff is stupid. The actual ranking system >>>>>>>>>>>>> this committee.
The BCS formula never completely reversed it's core criteria from week to week or year to year. This committee has constantly so far.
The tweak I would have been to removed the Harris poll, bump Coaches poll up to 50% and bump computer average up to 50%. Even still the the BCS ranking was the best widely recognized football ranking or selection tool we've ever had.
The Harris poll was not good but it was still better than this committee even if it were the only thing used. The committee is a smaller, more biased version of the Harris poll.
4 is much better than 2.
Selection process involving 8 computers and 100s of voters with rules that don't change every week is light years better than what we have now.
I honestly feel like Iowa State is going to be in the 11-14 range. They have two of the best wins of any program in college football this year (other than Georgia at ND).
I would say their wins are better than that of Georgia's and Notre Dame's
I have made the argument they are the two best wins by any program in CFB this year, BUT I think Georgia winning at ND is better than Iowa State beating TCU at home.
Still, I think those are the three "best" wins in CFB this year.
Oklahoma and ISU certainly have drastically better wins than media darling Ped State. Zero wins against currently ranked teams compared to ISU's two and played Iowa to the last play same as ISU.