CFP Conspiracy (Long)

Jan 2, 2015, 1:40 PM

Okay, so i have been stewing over this for a few weeks now, and I wanted to throw it out to y'all and see what you think. I hope this isn't Germans but I haven't seen it yet so I'll give it a shot:

I think that this years inaugural College Football Playoff was a complete conspiracy set up by ESPN and the CFP Committee to get the best story lines and match-ups possible for the first ever playoff. I believe that all along, the committee wanted the Marcus-Jameis match-up and the Meyer-Saban match-up in the semifinals. I also think that the end goal was to have the long awaited Oregon-Alabama match-up in the NC. This year we had Alabama-Ohio State in New Orleans (a virtual home game for Bama) and Oregon-FSU in Pasadena (a virtual home game for Oregon) in the semifinals. The bowls that would host the semis had already been decided prior to the season, so all the committee had to do was make sure that Alabama was #1 and Oregon #2 so that they could basically host each semifinal game and supposedly help their chances of getting to the NC (snicker, snicker Bama).

The biggest evidence to me is the inexplicable movement in the weekly CFP Polls. How else can you explain FSU dropping periodically, getting unseated by 1-loss teams despite going undefeated? In just about every BCS season prior to this, not losing a game all year AT LEAST guaranteed you the #2 spot, but almost always #1. Then you had TCU and Baylor. Baylor won the head to head, but TCU danced in front of Baylor from #7, to #4, to #3, before being bounced to #6 in the final week despite winning out. To most of us, it made no sense. But to the committee, they really weren't paying attention-in my opinion- to how they were moving teams like TCU from week to week as long as Ohio State ended up #4 and FSU #3 at the end of the year to set up their dream bracket. This, coupled with the absurd movement from Mississippi State and Michigan State in order to give the SEC the better bowl just irks me and leads me to believe that this playoff is not a better system than the BCS because there is infinitely more bias and human element than in the old rankings, because at least those had a computer element. This is just based on what those 12 individuals see on the field, and is subject to the media and other preferences.

Hopefully this process gets better as the seasons go by and the committee can set some precedents for how strength of schedule, conference championships and style points affect the rankings, but this year it seems like there was an awful lot of bias that went into their decisions and the way the bracket ended up was too perfect for it to a coincidence.

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CFP Conspiracy (Long)

On the contrary, FSU got too much credit maybe. How

Re: CFP Conspiracy (Long)

You miss one point though

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