Not sure why you keep repeating this, but LSU was the 4th best team in the SEC. They have the same conference record as Mizzou and beat them head to head.
I’m not advocating for or against CFP. FSU played a weak schedule. Period. If you believe FSU played a Top Ten schedule, support your claim with facts. Not emotion.
Think what you want. Does that help? The top four ACC teams beat the 4th best SEC team.
Your biass is showing.
It's my opinion that the ACC is a weak conference this year. And you are welcome to think otherwise.
I know there is a difference between football and basketball, but...a 16- or 15-seed occasionally shocks a 1- or 2- seed during March Madness, and those teams are actually ranked in the 60's...not in the top 25 like they will be in the CFP.
Seems to mebit wasn't the gift, it was the breaking of secrecy the ACC insisted on that AD did in telling CPJ about the investigation.
It usually is. It's what happens when conference expansions revolve around basketball schools and whatever classification Boston College falls into.
IMPO, there’s no conundrum when you have 4 slots and 3 undefeated P5 champs. The only issue is who gets the 4th slot. Fortunately, this year there were also 2 once-beaten P5 conference champs who had played each other with one winning straight up. Easy peasy. No conundrum.
Because the top team from both didn’t play. So you look at overall records. I wouldn’t say the ACC dominated, but then, I’ve not read that anywhere. What I have heard some say is the SECheat was not a dominant league this season and I would agree with that. Thus, there is no good football reason to have jacked the playoff to include them, penalizing an undefeated team in the process. Personally, I think if you can’t see that you just don’t want to see that. But you are certainly entitled to your opinion.
Considering the SEC's BEST OOC win is against....Louisiville....yeah, I am NOT impressed with the SEC this year.
SEC vs P5 Conferences
And that'd probably still be your opinion if Tech had beaten uga, despite that being far more embarrassing than Louisville losing to uk.
Heck, a lot of those 16 seeds historically wouldn’t be ranked in the top 100, and I still think they deserve a chance to play in the NCAA tourney. It’s the same reason I think all champions deserve a shot in football.
I still hold that it makes no sense to compare anything prior to 2014 with today. It's a lot easier for an undefeated team to be "left out" when there are only 2 spots available to play for a national championship.
I am not referring to the performance of individual games. If we are going to compare “conferences”, let’s look at the total performance of the conference.
...and the SEC out of conference schedule was, as always, somewhat weak (with a few P5 exceptions, the majority of which they lost this year).
But here's the problem with using the rankings for this analysis: the rankings are self-justifying. Why is Alabama ranked high? They beat Ole Miss and LSU. Why is LSU good? They beat Mizzou. Why is Mizzou good? They beat Tennessee. My point is that these SEC teams' entire resumes are predicated on wins against other SEC teams, and the committee will rank a mediocre team (like Tennessee) to justify their other rankings up the chain. The same applies for the ACC; FSU's schedule is supposedly "weak" because the committee arbitrarily decides that teams like Clemson and Lousiville make up a "weak" schedule, while playing garbage teams like Arkansas and Vandy is a "gauntlet".
THIS!!! The SEC rankings and SOS are self inflated!!! And because they always schedule weak OOC games it never gets challenged even when they lose all of the top 10 OOC games they played