re: Tim Brando: "Alabama has Pure Playoff Privilege"

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it is broken....They never came out what exactly they look for when picking top 4...is it most deserving? is it best record? is it quality wins? Resume? Conf Champ? quality loses? there is no parameter for there selection. if they go by any of these scenarios it changes week to week on which they will follow

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This is my biggest complaint too. Basically they can justify any combination of teams they pick since there’s no set criteria so it really comes down to eye test again ...which is what started the whole bcs system to begin with. So we’re back to opinion based rankings.

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Conf Champ?

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1st criterion should always be conference championship. A conference championship gets you in.

Of all the criteria that follow it should be a committee vote. I expect each committee member to to have their own criteria to place the four team playoff team. That's fine. But in order to get into the playoffs, conference championship needs to be removed from the list of criteria...taken out of the committee's hands.


The reason conference championship does not happen is because of Notre Dame.

To solve the Notre Dame problem (or the BYU problem) require that all independents finish their regular season undefeated. An undefeated season by an independent is a ticket to the playoffs but not a guarantee. Just like a conference championship would/should be a ticket to the playoffs but not a guarantee.

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it is broken....They never came out what exactly they look for when picking top 4...is it most deserving? is it best record? is it quality wins? Resume? Conf Champ? quality loses? there is no parameter for there selection. if they go by any of these scenarios it changes week to week on which they will follow

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We will find out what they were looking for...AFTER the final announcement in December. And that is horseshite. They should be transparent and lay out what they are judging the teams on. And all of this "well the committee changes from year to year" bullshite needs to go also. Have some set criterion. Go by that criteria. Very simple concept.

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They never came out what exactly they look for when picking top 4...is it most deserving? is it best record? is it quality wins? Resume? Conf Champ? quality loses? there is no parameter for there selection

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They came out with it. They said resume. But when you look at their voting, it says eye test. So they’re liars.

This is precisely why I actually LIKED the old BCS system. It used several different computer polls which weighted different things and offset the bias of the human polls.

Now, we have a committee that has no set parameters that we know of that they go by.

I know this, though, with only four spots available, no non-conference champion should be let in that has already lost to a conference champ that IS in the playoff.