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I don't believe as currently constituted that they're a top 15 team. Too many injuries
There seems to be a division in lines of thinking becoming more and more apparent. Is college football about having the best team, or is it about having the best body of work over a 12-15 game season?
Seems like this year especially, no one cares if you lose, as long as perception still says you're good. Alabama and ND are in the playoff top 4 with a loss each, and you think TCU is top 15 even at 9-3.
I think how good you are isn't nearly as important as proving it each week. Losses need to be penalized, and if TCU lost out, they do not have the body of work to be recognized as a top 15 team. I don't care if you're hands down the best team with the most talent and most NFL draft picks, if you lose, you need to be dropped in the rankings. The regular season games have to mean something.
I agree with almost all of what you said. But this is the reason that teams are afraid to play decent non-con games anymore. Who has the best body of work...team a is 10-2 but their losses are to 2 top five teams and they have 1 or 2 top 15 wins, or team b who is 12-0 but hasn't played any top 15 teams? That's where the debate comes in.
btw, this is purely hypothetical and not a dig at Iowa at all. I'm just saying it is not so black and white.
Definitely not black and white. I don't really envy the committee members - they're going to anger a lot of people no matter what they do.
