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re: College Football Playoff using top 4 Conference winners: BCS era
Posted on 12/16/13 at 11:54 pm to H-Town Tiger
Posted on 12/16/13 at 11:54 pm to H-Town Tiger
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I guess we will see, but I have not reason to believe that the committee will be much different than that top 4 anyway.
There probably is when you read what's been said:
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The championship game will be managed by the conferences and will not be branded as a bowl game. The presidents also announced the creation of a selection committee that will rank the teams to play in the playoff, "giving all the teams an equal opportunity to participate." The committee will consider win-loss record, strength of schedule, head-to-head results and whether a team is a conference champion.
When you look at those listed criteria that makes it a long shot for an at large who didn't win their conference to make the field.
1) Win/loss records are unlikely to help at large teams that don't win their conference; their W/L records are similar generally (MSU, UCF, Baylor, and Alabama have the same records this year).
2) Strength of schedule won't help teams like Alabama unless they start scheduling more aggressively out of conference. Note they have one win against a team in teh top 20 of the BCS in LSU whereas conference champs like Baylor, MSU, and Stanford may have better quality wins on their schedules (again, I refer you to the BCS rankings of teams like OU, tOSU, Oregon, ASU, and UCLA compared to Bama's best team beaten in LSU)
3) Head to head results - another way of saying win your conference. If you lost those games against teams you should have beaten to win your conference you are going to have an uphill battle to an at large berth.
4) Winning your conference - By definition this will not favor at large bids.
Posted on 12/17/13 at 12:10 am to molsusports
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When you look at those listed criteria that makes it a long shot for an at large who didn't win their conference to make the field
those criteria are just guidelines, not mandates and frankly I have no problem with them. If you want to give the nod to Baylor because Baylor won their conference, and Bama didn't I don't see why that would be a problem. BCS supporters want the regular season to matter, so who would making Auburn play Bama twice in 3 games not diminish the regular season? Keep in mind that Auburn had to play an extra game, which had they lost would have knocked them out, while Bama sits at home and gets in? How is that fair?
What the committee can do is put teams like 2003 OU, 1998 KState or 2001 Tenn in despite those teams being upset in CCG.
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