My Issue With CFP Committee

Nov 11, 2015, 1:57 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the objective of the CFP Committee to select the top teams in the country in order to fill bowl game and playoff spots? Doesn't it seem like the Committee is turning out to be a lot like the AP or the BCS at this point?

I know we're only two years in, but here is the issue that I take with the Committee: projections! The CFP Committee was established for the sole purpose of ranking the Top 25 teams in order to fulfill its objective of filling playoff and bowl game berths. To do that the Committee, as it has stated itself, must objectively look at each team and evaluate its entire resume, as it stands today. The Committee has always been very careful to always work using the same protocol and the same criteria for ranking teams, but they are now beginning to drift outside their original charter.

With the release of the last set of rankings, on 11/10/15, the CFP Committee openly acknowledged that they are PROJECTING the resume of a given team.

EXAMPLE:

#3 OHIO STATE BUCKEYES 9-0
- 0 wins vs Top 25
- 2-0 vs Winning Opponents (Northern Illinois; Penn State)
- 0 non-conference games against Winning Opponents from Power 5

#5 Iowa Hawkeyes 9-0
- 2 wins vs Top 25 (#18 Northwestern; #25 Wisconsin)
- 4-0 vs Winning Opponents (Wisconsin, Pitt, Illinois, Northwestern)
- 1-0 vs non-conference Power 5 Winning Opponents

I don't see ANY way that anyone can skew those numbers to tell me that Ohio State has a better record than Iowa. The Hawkeyes win in every metric out there, so when the Committee ranks the best teams as they are today, why is Ohio State ahead of Iowa?

ANSWER: "the eye test"

The Committee will tell you that they use "the eye test" to help determine where teams should be ranked, but what they should do is admit that they are doing the same thing that the AP does, and that's projecting rankings.

This is what is wrong with rankings today. The CFP should be stepping back and letting the stats and facts speak for themselves instead of injecting their own form of bias and disguising it as "the eye test". I'm not saying that Ohio State isn't better than Iowa, but I can say with 100% certainty that Iowa has made a better case for itself so far. Ohio State hasn't played a single team that is ranked in the Top 25, while Iowa has already beaten two!

If somebody else sees this differently please feel free to explain.

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I think you missed the point here. I'm excited as you-know-what that our Tigers are #1, but I'm just as disappointed in the system that has determined that a OSU team that has done absolutely nothing on the field this year is better than a team like Iowa. Take Baylor for example too. Baylor hasn't even played a team with a winning record. So their schedule is backloaded? So what! It's not about what they might do, or even what we think they might do. The BCS and the AP rankings were and are based on projections and bias. That's what we were supposed to get rid of with the CFP, but instead it is dressed up, slapped with some make up, and paraded all over as something it's not. Baylor and Ohio State have less of a resume than even anyone in the Top 25 and should be ranked as such!

My Issue With CFP Committee

Agree

This crowd is indifferent until we start to get burned by it,

What crowd? All you read on here is outrage about the

Because usually the team ranked #1 is one that benefits

I dunno, the feeling about SEC bias is pretty strong

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Hate to break up this 'woe is us' party but

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I know they say they start over each year ... but I think

One factor the committee will NOT admit to,but it is obvious

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There should only be one CFP Poll - the last one.

Re: There should only be one CFP Poll - the last one.

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