My questions are Alabama being ahead of Florida, Baylor being ahead of Michigan State, and Iowa being ahead of Memphis. Otherwise they got it right. Clemson, LSU, Notre Dame are in the right place.
Week 1 Semi-Official CFP poll Thread
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I agree on that. The policy seems to be "rank the brand names as high as we can" and then use inconsistent logic to justify it. Team X is there because of a quality win. Team Y is there because they pass the eye test. Team Z is their because they have quality losses despite having no good wins. Team Q is there because Barry Alvarez told us so.
TCU's SOS is terrible right now so I have no problem with where them or Baylor sit. Each will play 3 Top 15 teams before the season is over.
Their SOS is 15 spots higher than Ohio State's. Why not have Ohio State 7th or 9th?
They finished 1-2 with Ohio State and everybody else was clearly playing worse football last year, then they play better teams than Ohio State and win in more dominant fashion generally, but OSU gets #3 and TCU gets #8?
TCU at #8 means the committee should have an official stance that they ignore last year and thus Ohio State's horrible schedule until the last two games should be just as big a deal as Baylor's easy early schedule.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/
The committee needs to be more open about whatever SOS they use. I follow a ton of computer polls and nothing they say about SOS makes any sense according to any widely followed computer poll.
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Fully agree with that, I have no problem with where Baylor and TCU are, but OSU should be right in the same range, not third. They have one decent win and it was at home against a very, very average Penn St team.
There is flat out nothing in the observable world that shows Ohio State should be 5 spots ahead of TCU. Not computer numbers, not "let's consider last year", not "eye test", nothing.
Alabama in the top 4 with a loss makes more sense than Ohio State being drastically ahead of TCU.
if Iowa goes 13-0 and doesn't make the playoffs I wouldn't care as long as they are in the ROSE Bowl. I know that sounds dumb but I still view the Rose as the big prize at the end of the tunnel and would much much rather they win the ROSE than lose in the playoffs. I could be very very happy with a 14-0 rose/B10 championship, heck I would probably even buy one those replica fake championship rings that the team would most certainly have made up. It still be the greatest season ever possible for us hawk fans.
It's pretty clear with Ohio State and Alabama that name recognition means something. At least in these early polls.
on that note the committee has definitely sent the notice that the SEC doesn't lose they only have "non-wins" that are basically equal to a tie.
So if bama beats LSU then ole miss wins out and FLA beats ole miss that could result in a BAMA, ND, CLEM, FLA final 4 with a undefeated (sparty) B10 winner and undefeated (TCU/OKIEst) B12 possibly being left out with 3 other "name brand" 1 loss teams taking their place. how would that go over with the fans and media? chaos and burning pitch forks would be seen on every street corner
So if bama beats LSU then ole miss wins out and FLA beats ole miss that could result in a BAMA, ND, CLEM, FLA final 4 with a undefeated (sparty) B10 winner and undefeated (TCU/OKIEst) B12 possibly being left out with 3 other "name brand" 1 loss teams taking their place. how would that go over with the fans and media? chaos and burning pitch forks would be seen on every street corner
That would have been drastically less possible with 1/3 comp average, 1/3 coaches poll, 1/3 harris poll. The only reason the committee exists is to manipulate things for money and power, it has nothing to do with picking the best 4 teams.
