re: Ole Miss SHOULD be over BAMA.. But OK over LSU?

I'll try to play devil's advocate.

If I'm a lazy voter, I don't have time to compare victories. It's way easier to just compare the losses, there's fewer of them.

We all know how LSU's losses went down. Look at the box scores of the Sooners losses:
1 2 3 4 Total
OU 14 10 7 2 33
TCU 14 10 7 6 37

1 2 3 4 Total
KSt 7 14 10 0 31
OU 7 10 7 6 30

Choose either one, and a lot of reasonable, but lazy, voters might say one them sort of equates to the Miss St loss. Compare either one to the Auburn loss. OU just doesn't have that bad of a loss, to date.

Hence, the over-simplified lazy voter process is: rank teams you don't care about by number of losses. The tiebreaker for equal number of losses is: bad losses vs respectable losses.

I want to emphasize that this in not my process, but how I think a lazy (or strapped-for-time or just plain old stupid) person might do it.