re: BIAS in CFB

Many people have a tendency to focus too much on who a team lost to rather than on who they have beaten. Does it really matter, for example, whether dropping a game to Cal, Syracuse, South Carolina, or Arizona State (for example) is really the worst loss? They are all games that a genuine top-20 team has no business losing to, but all have just enough talent to beat a good team that isn't fully focused and/or gets some bad breaks. What is much more important, in my view, is who you have beaten. When you're talking about choosing teams for the playoff or a major bowl game, how good they can be on their best day should matter more than how bad they might have been on their worst day. When trying to rank or choose between teams with similar records, best wins ought to matter more than best losses, at least in my opinion. So yes, Washington State inexplicably laid an egg against Cal, but they also gave USC their only loss of the season so far. That counts for something.