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It can be bad for morale if 95% of the company sees themselves working harder for the same reward. So you can be a net win but your peers be upset … whoa, it really is a perfect analogy ;)

The ACC needs some more strength at the very top right now but Duke ain’t gonna be that team and we don’t want them being it anyway, fanbase-size-wise. So they can be one of the bottom teams that needs to be bad instead of pulling off annoying upsets to create logjams at 5-3.

"Comparable" vs "equal" teams seems to be the "we're transparent about wanting to give ourselves lots of leeway" hole of choice. If you look at many of the computer metrics, it seems fair enough to call FSU comparable to Alabama and Texas without introducing human biases or intervention... and...

But I don't think the "transparent and up front" criteria was broken. Here's an article from 2014 talking about it, even, it's very old news - https://www.nfl.com/news/j-t-barrett-injury-gives-rise-to-cfp-s-selection-criteria-0ap3000000435810 - it was well known injuries would be considered, and...

Those byes are going to be important in a way that I feel like could be costly for the SEC/Big 10 depending on how long the system-as-designed lasts before another league implodes or something else dramatic happens. A Big XII champ with a weak conference championship opponent skipping a game...

Eh, SOS is way too out of anyone's hands. Matchups are often set years in advance for OOC games, and for conference games you have even less control over how good your opponents are in any given year. The drumbeat against the computers not being able to account for factors like that in the BCS...

In the average year the “a p5 undefeated conference champ shouldn’t be left out” crowd is more likely to be happy with humans than computers since that conference title is an arbitrary thing compared to factors like “how much worse would Louisville need to be for FSU to fall behind both Alabama...

The BCS formula would have had FSU but was very close to dropping them. Imagine if Washington had lost and this was the BCS era and we ended up with Michigan/Alabama as the title game. Or if just a few second-order SOS differences due to what opponents of each team would have put Texas in...

The BCS criteria were hardly some fixed impartial thing. They were changed when people complained about the computers for a few years in a row and we got another split title because of SOS-y shenanigans causing a “the wrong two out of three teams were picked” perception in 2003. And then changed...

The ACCCG against Louisville would've been the perfect time for him to have one of his random lights-out games after the first two strings were out... :o

Get the good rim in the second half

Ndongo realizing that if Cain was helping on him there was an open man was a nice little piece of quick ball movement there leading to getting it back and scoring himself

Reminds me of how we always knew in school which teachers we could manipulate and take advantage of who wouldn’t do anything in response. “Kids today”? That was decades ago. You don’t wanna hire one of those teachers to coach a team, though.

Lots of streaming network competitors out there who would probably love to pick up 80% of college football games if ESPN only took the top 20%… but they probably aren’t gonna be paying nearly as much as all those schools get today. You’ll be able to watch but GT has a lot of debt that would be...

If it’s “pure supposition” to believe the statement but not supposition to label the published remarks “spin”? lol ok You are entitled to disbelieve whoever you want but let’s stick to English definitions please

Sure and I’d say “Auburn runs table but can’t move the ball after their stud QB goes out and they played Mizzou in the SECCG and didn’t look great while FSU had one loss to Michigan but beat a previously undefeated Miami in the ACCCG and jumped them” and you just would say you didn’t agree...

Folks bringing up TCU seem to have forgotten that TCU won a game?? But as long as this thread is “they got left out cause of the injury” vs “they would’ve gotten left out anyway cause SEC bias” it’s gonna go forever cause folks literally aren’t even having the same discussion. Wheeee around we go

If the ACC had a competent PR team I think they’d make the story about the injury instead of inviting scrutiny on SOS or overall conference strength against Alabama. Make everyone remember it as an anomaly instead of a conference snub. If the story that the ACC blocked the playoff expansion is...

I agree that conference championship games don’t make sense in a world of megaconferences and larger playoffs.

Wasn’t someone from their D who got injured. Doesn’t matter last year, but this year it was an excuse handed to the committee on a silver platter. Good news is it doesn’t matter next year either.