As much as anyone, I would love to see ND vs Texas in a solid bowl game, but what we are seeing in consecutive years from the college football playoffs is what indeed had been missing for decades....rewarding excellence, aka winning games.
No more speculations about whether an undefeated Boise St or Utah can beat a 3 loss Alabama. No more "tradition" over wins/losses, and no more SEC bullying of the collective ranking system.
The college football playoff system is picking teams that earn their way into the playoffs, and for once (or twice, because I think they got it eight last year), we dont need to listen to the so called experts and SEC shills make their demands for getting 3-loss Texas in over a team like James Madison.
"Well, we don't have to schedule Ohio State", pouted Steve Sarkesian. My answer to that is: you had a nice thing going there Texas, it was called the Big 12, and you were an alpha.
No more bullying. Teams have to win. They have to beat the teams on their schedule and excellence in the conference matters.
The committee has gotta go. Same with the Tuesday night show.
I think the right teams got in, but the process is a mess.
I disagree. I don't think they are rewarding excellence. They are rewarding conference tie-ins. Plus politically correct 'feelz' of everybody gets a ribbon with some lower level teams allowed in.
Sure, part of the reason to let 25th ranked teams in is 'we're a committee of people with huge biases toward our conferences and we know we routinely screw the smaller programs' so they wrote some rules to prevent it. And they do need to spread a little of the money around to try to keep the game healthy. They need OoC opponents after all.
If the CFP used metrics, the statisticians, Vegas, computer ranks, they could get very close to the 12 who deserve it. But they chose to go the opposite, far away from rewarding excellence, back to smoke filled rooms.
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