re: Final football ranking top 5

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Perhaps since Texas beat Bama, who beat Georgia?

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For fricks sake….the transitive property doesn’t work in football! Period. Literally every year it gets empirically proven but idiots still try to incorporate it in their logic.

When called out on it, typically proponents double down on the cognitive dissonance and claim that a playoff is more “pure” and regular season outcomes don’t matter at all in evaluating teams.

It’s a huge reason of why a deep, multi round playoff is wrong for the sport. But watch a 16 or even 20 team playoff get pushed in a few years.