CFP committee making adjustments to selections: Greater weight/less penalty vs quality opp

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This is also telling "top" G5 programs like Memphis/BSU/Tulane/Army/UNLV/Navy to go ahead and schedule multiple ranked P5 teams each year as they will NOT be penalized for a "decent loss" in September come CFP selection time.

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I think it's more so telling all programs that they won't be considered if they don't have any quality wins and that no team, G5 or not, can skate by on an easy schedule and be considered for the playoff. AKA, Indiana can't have its best win be against a 7-5 Michigan team and be considered for a spot.

9-3 Ole Miss would have beaten 11-1 Indiana last year. Not saying that we would have also gone 11-1 against their schedule, but in a neutral field matchup, Ole Miss would have won and likely won comfortably. We also would have beaten teams like SMU and Boise State, but the automatic qualifiers took CFP spots away from the best teams and gave them to less deserving teams. Hence why the CFP is making such large sweeping changes to the model after just one year of it.

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Bad news for Curt Cignetti and Indiana.

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Indiana's 2024 football schedule:
August 31 - 31-7 win over 4-8 FIU
September 6 - 77-3 win over 4-8 Western Illinois (FCS)
September 14 - 42-13 win at 5-7 UCLA
September 21 - 52-14 win over 5-7 Charlotte (who fired their coach before the season ended)
September 28 - 42-28 win over 4-8 Maryland
October 5 - 41-24 win at 4-8 Northwestern (in a soccer stadium)
October 19 - 56-7 win over 7-6 Nebraska (with a true freshman QB)
October 26 - 31-17 win over 6-7 Washington (with a first-year head coach)
November 2 - 47-10 win at 5-7 Michigan State (with a first-year head coach)
November 9 - 20-15 win over 8-5 Michigan (with a first-year head coach)
November 23 - 38-15 LOSS at national champion Ohio State
November 30 - 66-0 win over 1-11 Purdue
December 20 - 27-17 loss at #2 Notre Dame

Indiana's best win was against an 8-5 Michigan team. That is clearly a quality win. Their next best win was against a 7-6 Nebraska team followed by a win over a 6-7 Washington team. All three of those games were at home.

They avoided Penn State, Oregon, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota in conference play and only played one B1G team with at least 8 wins.

It is absolutely outrageous they were in the playoff last season.

Indiana better call Virginia back

Doesn’t matter. You can give a list of guidelines a mile long or just have three and a committee of human beings is still going to look at something however they want to see it and a find a way to individually justify their results. Just use a computer formula and roll with it.

It means the Texas/Ohio State game really has no loser. It's like in basketball where you get rewarded for playing a tough schedule.

They have to give those games some weight or else we will all watch cupcake games for several weeks each year.

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Indiana's 2024 football schedule:
August 31 - 31-7 win over 4-8 FIU
September 6 - 77-3 win over 4-8 Western Illinois (FCS)
September 14 - 42-13 win at 5-7 UCLA
September 21 - 52-14 win over 5-7 Charlotte (who fired their coach before the season ended)
September 28 - 42-28 win over 4-8 Maryland
October 5 - 41-24 win at 4-8 Northwestern (in a soccer stadium)
October 19 - 56-7 win over 7-6 Nebraska (with a true freshman QB)
October 26 - 31-17 win over 6-7 Washington (with a first-year head coach)
November 2 - 47-10 win at 5-7 Michigan State (with a first-year head coach)
November 9 - 20-15 win over 8-5 Michigan (with a first-year head coach)
November 23 - 38-15 LOSS at national champion Ohio State
November 30 - 66-0 win over 1-11 Purdue
December 20 - 27-17 loss at #2 Notre Dame

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Thanks for this…I just recently forgave myself for betting on them against Notre Dame but the disgust is back.

This shite is already more convoluted than the BCS was. Just bring that back at this point.