I don't even know who the ladies and gentlemen of the committee are. And, I am light-years away from being a credible college football analyst. That said, I think it's clear that the committee has a thankless and virtually unsolvable problem on its hands with this season.

 

Aside from a certain team out west, this season is all about chaos, forehead-smacking results, and maybe some kind of parity. The portal, NIL, conference realignment, even the 12-team playoff have produced seismic changes and upset the college football apple cart like never before. It's a brave, and (to me, anyway) welcome, new world that some programs, like that of a certain team out west, are dynamic enough to chart a path through.

 

But, it leaves the playoff committee in the position of pissing off a record number of people, no matter what they do. Strength of record, strength of schedule, won-lost records, eyeball test? Sure. But, the end result will be endless debates about who got in and who was left out. I mean, who would you pick, and why? The committee can't win with a season like this one. And maybe in seasons to come if this is the new normal. Yay, parity.

 

The only thing that will raise my ire will be if they lard the meaty playoffs roster with an extra helping of fat from the SEC. Good luck, committee.

 Oregon is No.1, they don't have a loss, the Committee gets this right. I'm not a college football expert either, but for starters, I'd see that Georgia beat Texas, 30-15, in Texas. I would see that Texas does have 1 more L than Texas does. But I would notice that possibly the much more difficult schedule Georgia went through, compared to the Texas navigated, could have something to do with it, and have Georgia above Texas.

 

Miami is taking care of themselves. 

To start, 12 teams in a playoff is an unworkable number.  Then you give five conferences four favored seeds with first round byes.  Throw in a guaranteed seed for the schools that don’t belong to one of the five conferences.  Add a dose that only two of the five conferences have quality teams.  This mess was negotiated by the conferences, without input from the committee.

 

throw it all into the lap of the committee and blame them when you think your team is screwed by the ranking they produce. The ranking is placed in a bracket that the conferences designated.

 

The end result is the fault of the committee, even though they were handed an impossible can of worms by the conferences.

I left out the independent that further complicates the seeding, because no matter how good they are they cannot be seeded above fifth.

My issue is less about the Comittee, at least at this time, and more with the way the bracket is set up. 

 

The 5th seed is going to be a top 3 or 4 ranked team and they'll play the No. 12+ ranked team out the gate, as it will probably be the Big 12 Champion and then probably the No. 10 team in Boise State. It feels like Oregon should play the winner of No. 12+ and No. 10 and not a team ranked below us. 

 

This has been hashed out to death at this point. 

 

But it's a formatting problem and not a ranking problem. 

So sorry, but I Completely Demure.

 

Texas will be ranked No. 2 tomorrow night. Boise, 81st SOS, will be ranked ahead of ASU/Iowa State. There is ZERO support for these two other than the Eye Test. 

 

This format has to go and the Committee if it stays in place post-2025/26, MUST disclose the metrics it uses to rank and seed the teams. As does the NCAA Basketball Committee, a group that is not owned by Disney/ESPN. 

 

As Georgia coach Kirby Smart so adeptly asked: 'What are the criteria besides Ws and Ls?' 

 

Yes, UGA has 2 Ls to two top-25 teams. Unlike Texas, Georgia has wins against the top 25: Clemson, Tennessee, and TEXAS! 1 loss Texas lost at home to UGA and the game wasn't close. The rest of the Horns schedule was a joke. Texas is one of five teams that defeated Michigan this season, including OBD. 

 

Ranking on a whim with multi-millions of dollars at stake should be unacceptable. 

Currently,

Oregon -3.5 over Penn State

Texas -2.5 over Georgia

Clemson -2.5 over SMU

ASU -2.0 over Iowa State

 

My LV friends and I got down immediately on UGA +2.5 in Atlanta. 

 

Has Vegas been infested by members of the PO Committee? Did Bill Hancock retire to Vegas? 

 

Mercedes Benz Stadium is UGA's 2nd home. And I'm reasonably certain Georgia played Texas in Austin and won the game, right? 

 

If Texas has a Committee top 25 win tomorrow night it will only be due to the Committee trying to save face by ranking a 4-loss A+M team. 

 

Pound, Plaster, Paste, Pulverize, and PUNISH penn state!  

In other, hardly breaking news, Cowherd still has osu2 & Texas in the Championship Game. 

 

Dismantle, Annihilate, Vaporize Penn State!

I realize this goes completely against what ESPN is hoping for with the weekly Rankins Show, CHAOS!!! They love it. I on the other hand would be just fine if the Committee did, as Jon Joseph has suggested, reveal the criteria they use, though the results indicate so far, their criteria is W's & L's.

 

The best thing would be to just do as "March Madness" does and wait until Selection Sunday to reveal the bracket. 

Someone once said:

 

A Giraffe is a Horse, designed by a Committee.

The odds have nothing to do with how Vegas or the betting sites think will win. Or by how much

 

The odds are set SOLEY to make sure money is evenly distributed between both sides.

The CFP could learn a lot from the NCAA Men's and Women's bb tournaments. They used to have byes and decided against them. A team can have a lot of momentum and then they get a bye. Yes you don't get tired from playing that game nor risk playing it. I also really like the new system of using Quads. Teams are punished when they play division two teams or teams that are not in a power conference. You can play those teams but there is a cost.