Re: The eye test is laughable, Opinion and conjecture.

CUGRAD1980 · 2023-12-03T12:51:44.952Z

Nothing more. The three undefeateds and Texas belong in the playoff. Don’t really care who thinks this or that team would beat another team. If the eye test is so good, why have a playoff at all?

tabbyplague®

Orange Phenom [14755]

TigerPulse: 100%

Posts: 6329

Joined: 2004

Oh FFS....

Dec 3, 2023, 8:49 AM

All rankings involve the "eye test". How else are any of the initial team rankings in the first month of the season determined? You know -those games where FSU gets credit for beating a "5th ranked" LSU team on the opening weekend of College football and propels them into the early season top 4?

If not for the eye test then why isn't Liberty - a 13 win undefeated, conference champion - in the discussion of being in the top 4 of the CFP right now?? Simple - "eye test" says they haven't played as tough of competition as the Power 5 teams in CFP contention and as a result aren't being considered for the CFP.

There's nothing other than "eye test" to tell us Liberty doesn't belong. If we solely used the wins/losses column and conference champion label that some on here want to be the sole determining factor in the CFP - Liberty would have to be in the top 4 alongside Michigan, Washington, and FSU.

So please folks - have a little common sense and recognize that "eye test" is a necessary component of the team rankings. The CFP has to compare different teams, who have played completely different competition and schedules across the whole spectrum of college football and there really is no other way to reconcile/make certain judgements to determine who are among the BEST 4 teams without some amount of "eye test"....

flag link

military_tech

thumb_down

thumb_up

Eye test plays a huge roll in that SOS metric because you are comparing completely different conferences without common opponents. At some point we have to look at the AAC, C-USA and just say they aren't as good as the SEC, ACC etc.. because of the "eye test". When comparing different teams, unless they actually play one another, we don't know for certain who will/would win but we can make certain judgements based off of "eye test".

So "eye test" has to be in the calculus for rankings because how else can you factually discard/determine Liberty's actual ranking without them having actually played a common Power 5 opponent of FSU, Michigan, Texas, Washington, or Alabama?

You can't have it both ways in regards to eye test. You can't ignore the obvious offensive issues/flaws with FSU simply because they won 13 games and a conference championship against a Louisville team that got to the ACC champ game by playing the easiest schedule in the ACC. Yet at the same time are willing to use an eye test to discard Liberty by saying their 13 wins/conference championship are against lessor competition - i.e. the SOS metric which involves a certain amount of "eye test".

The eye test is laughable, Opinion and conjecture.

Careful film study will reveal a lot about future matchups.

Why would people of color have a better picture of this?***

Maybe the only thing youve ever said that made me chuckle.

Re: Careful film study will reveal a lot about future matchups.