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This is the stuff Greg Sankey uses to justify staying with 8 conference games. Sankey and ESPN should be embarrassed by this tripe.

2025 College Football Power Index - ESPN

SEC - Six of the top 10, including the top three.

But for the five highest-seeded conference champions being included in the Playoff field, nine of the 12 Playoff teams would come from the SEC, including No. 8 Tennessee.

No. 12 LSU would be replaced by No. 34 Boise State. Number 11 South Carolina would be replaced by No. 18 Kansas State, and No. 10 Ole Miss would be replaced by No. 16 (!) Clemson.

12 SEC teams are in the top 25, along with six B1G teams, three ACC, and three B12 teams, and Notre Dame.

AP No. 4 Clemson fell from No. 15 in the FPI to No. 22. AP No. 10 Miami fell from FPI No. 9 to No. 17. AP No. 24 Tennessee is now FPI's No. 8-ranked team. AP No. 21 Ole Miss is now FPI's No. 10-ranked team, and AP No. 8 Alabama is now ranked 3rd in the FPI.

Did I miss something? Did Clemson QB Cade Klubnik and Miami QB Carson Beck decide to skip the 2025 season and prepare for the draft? Is Nico back at QB for Tennessee? Is Bama QB Ty Simpson on par with the anointed Archie?

OBD ranked 7th by the AP, is also ranked 7th by the FPI. Why? I am Clue and Less.

Any Dixiecrat who uses these Faulty Prediction Index rankings to justify anything having to do with the It Just Means More folks should be sent to their room without their hush puppies and grits. 🤬

This is precisely why I hate preseason polls. ESPN carries water for the SEC and it's obvious.

I thought playing the games meant something. You know, settle it all on the field! Not basing positions based on recruiting and last years results.

We must demand all D1 teams in P4 conference play 9 conference games.

Make a level playing field for subjective vote casting.

"It just means more"?

Right. More $$$ in their coffers.

Only if we, the B1G let them get away with it.

Every year they serve out the SEC hype train and proclaim them lords of the game, then the B1G shows them how football is really played.

Hope it’s not long before we Duck fans are able to say, “It just means Moore!”

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We all know that preseason polls generate conversation and excitement before the season, and are never 100% accurate. No matter when polls are generated there will always be bias involved.

Does anyone think that all +130 football teams are on equal footing to start the season? Absolutely not.

Bigger Brands, or names will generally always get more positive bias than they may deserve…

Projecting winners and losers is fun, but never easy. Just look at how quickly March Madness brackets get destroyed.

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Drake, thanks for posting the video.

No offense meant toward you, my friend, but IMO the video is puff piece propaganda, including the reference to the exquisite math behind the FPI. The math is too difficult to fathom, so move right along, nothing to see here. My guess, if it weren't proprietary, hundreds of thousands of software and programming 'experts' and millions of people versed in mathematics, would 'get' the math.

The majority of us on the Forum followed college football assiduously and with passion over the last four seasons. Did anyone watch anything from the 2021 season through the 2024-25 playoffs that justifies this SEC-centric ranking?

Make no mistake, the SEC based on recruiting numbers and the number of players drafted every year is, IMO, top to bottom deeper than the B1G. At least I think so? What would the SEC records look like at the end of the season with eight more losses among the 16 member teams?

This is the question Tony Petitti is asking, and it isn't answered by a biased ranking being peddled as legit because it 'objectively' emanates from a computer. Setting the machine aside, I seem to recall ESPN honks decrying three 3-loss SEC teams not being in the playoff right up until the postseason games started to be played.

My math-challenged summary of the FPI and this ranking: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

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This comes from SMU coach and former Arkansas QB and coach in the SEC, Rhett Lashlee.

Give 'em the lash, Rhett! 😁I love an ESecPN and implied Sankey spanking.

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/coach-accuses-espn-of-rigging-college-football-rankings

AP - Clemson No. 4, Miami No. 10, SMU No. 16

Revised Faulty Prediction Index - Clemson No. 16, Miami No. 17, SMU No. 19, for a total difference of -22.

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