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This CFP committee

Has the Division I-A college football post-season process been hijacked?

Today’s computers are supposedly great at voice recognition, negotiating the internet, and driving cars, but somehow incapable of analyzing the 5 million metrics that are currently collected on:

  • recruiting class strength,
  • strength of schedules,
  • 3rd down blitz touchdown efficiency,
  • yards after catch against teams that have never defended the spread, and
  • opponent’s opponent’s opponent’s records,

then spitting out specific reasonable data that would indicate to a group of individuals the four teams that performed the best against the best opposition?

And as flawed and regionally focused as AP and UPI voters were back in the "bad old days" of college bowl game assignments and subjective "mythical" National Championship, sports writers had at least one thing they valued: their reputations. With a few exceptions, these institutions held their responsibility in high regard.

This current College Football Playoff Committee evidently does not.

There are FAR, FAR too many questions in the last few weeks that lead me to wonder… are they just lazy? Overmatched in the task they’ve been asked to perform? Or, really, are the completely corrupt?

I’m not even going to talk about the top four, even though there are inconsistencies there as well. But a few for instances:

Mississippi State – Currently the top 3-loss team. Why? MSU is the only team in the country that only has 8 Power Five opponents on their schedule. And a non-conference slate that is awful: Charleston Southern - La Tech - BYU - UMass

Iowa State – more top ten wins than all of Alabama’s opponents combined. Hell, the same number of top ten wins as Alabama. Why are they below some 3-loss teams that clearly couldn’t compete with ISU on a neutral field. Boise St over Iowa St? Who do we think wins this on a neutral field?

LSU is a team that lost to Troy. No amount of top ten wins should make up for this fact. If there is such a thing as a bad loss, this is it.

TCU has the #6 strength of schedule in the country, just below Auburn, and just ahead of Ohio State, yet ranked significantly lower than both, with comparable – if not arguably better - losses.

South Carolina and VaTech appear in the poll at just the right time to prop up the ACC.

There are many other inconstancies up and down the rankings. And it DOESN’T TAKE MUCH DIGGING to see them. My opinion: The committee members are giving too much weight to the louder voices in the room. Which allows the bar to move each week based on someone's heavy argument for/against something this week. It has been edging this way the last two years. This year, they’re not even masking it well.

And their group and individual reputations are taking the hit.

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