gtbeak
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My take is that winning games is the main thing that should be looked at. In football FSU won all of their games. Alabama won all but one. Close, but Florida St had more wins so they should be in unless there is some EXTREMELY compelling reason to put Alabama ahead of them. There was not unless you buy the Jordan Travis injury explanation, which I don't, at least not enough to overcome the fact that they won two games against decent teams after that injury.Using your words then Alabama was a proper selection over FSU as that Bama team returned a lot of their players from their prior years very successful teams and should have been given the benefit of the doubt while FSU has been a poor team for years prior to this past season. Heck UGA as a 2 time defending champion should have been selected as well for the CFP based on their returning the core of their prior years team. Clearly next season if it a close call between Clemson and Alabama Alabama gets picked over Clemson as they made the CFP more recently!
That is silly thinking at best!. No different in the NCAAT!
The converse is GT hasn't made the NCAAT in years so as a possible bubble team they should be on the outside over other bubble teams who have been in the NCAAT recently and won a game or two.
In basketball, I've already shown that UVa and Pitt both won games at the same or higher level than the schools taken or seeded ahead of them. So, there must be a compelling reason to dock UVa and Pitt as compared to those other schools. There isn't one, yet the basketball universe seems to think there is as evidenced by the fact that they annually dock the ACC schools at the expense of the Big 12 primarily and the SEC secondarily. Perhaps also the Big 10, I haven't looked all that closely at them. I think that is where the "look at past performance" narrative comes from...whatever the basketball universe is looking at that says the Big 12 is head and shoulders above the ACC seems to be proven wrong on a regular basis in the tourney. As GT33 said, if one is wrong nearly every time they do something (pick and seed NCAA teams in this case), one should probably re-evaluate the process that is being used.
ETA: As Stinger stated, equitable treatment, not preferential treatment.
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