re: Scheduling is old news but Chris Low nailed it

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Things are changing.With its investment in the SEC ESPN needs to have games people want to watch allover the country, not just La & Miss.

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I'm not trying to be an arse, but how are things changing? Look at 2012.

Bama had one of the easiest SEC schedules since expansion (as pointed out in the thread) and got to play another media darling that beat only 2 ranked teams while struggling to beat Pitt and BYU among others.

That is the same old same old. Two media darlings with ridiculously easy schedules, and one of them still couldn't win out.

It is all about ratings at the end of the day. Bama and ND will give ESPN higher ratings than a team like LSU. End of story.

Nothing is going to change. In fact, the four team playoff will only expose their bias even more when they cram two more darlings in the final four who could not win the games they were supposed to win. I can already see a 11-1 or 10-2 Third Place USC, ND, Bama, Ohio State, UF or Michigan being in the playoff next to unbeaten conference champs.

Face it, CFB is a modern-day WWE. It is all set up with the winners chosen ahead of time either via the media or via rigged scheduling. Should someone like a 2011 LSU screw up the narrative by winning big games like "The Game of the Century", they will simply erase history by allowing the darling another shot. The playoff will allow them to do that for 2, maybe 3 other teams annually.