The Sagarin pseudo-science metrics don’t catch any of that. Many games are decided by the whims of nature, key injuries, bad bounces & breaks of all kinds, ‘throw-out-the-record-book’ rivalries & grudge matches, and last-but-not-least the huge number of officials’ calls & no-calls.
”įace it, the whole strength-of-schedule thing is science fiction (as it frankly has been since its inception) and is the biggest flaw of the current playoff selection system, as many other bloggers have noted (along with the fact that Alabama & the SEC are clearly over-rated!).
Also take into account the SEC as a conference played the most FCS schools and the second-least P5’s out-of-conference. ‘Bama played just 3 teams in the last CFP top 25. Sagarin has clear SEC bias because if you look at the Bama schedule no way it’s 2nd. To paraphrase and add to what was posted by SCHOUP (below): If so, Alabama and most of the other SEC schools would rarely see the Top 25, while those from the Big Ten and PAC-12 would thrive! I hope that the movement to include academic rankings in the CFB rankings takes root. You hicks love to rip on a worthy, classy team (and university) like Iowa, but how many teams ranked as highly as N’western has overrated (yes, OVERRATED!) Alabama defeated this season like Iowa has? For you single-minded red-necks, it’s ‘college FOOTBALL’ rather than the other way around, as it used to be and should be. Suffice it to say that southern schools like Alabama have lead the way in the steady erosion of academic standards in college football for decades in order to gain a competitive advantage. And they’re more well coached, because Urban is better than Nick (not to mention much more personable as well: does that funeral home directer coach of yours ever even smile?)įYI, there are Crimson Tide haters EVERYWHERE, and with good reason. It will be COL after ‘Bama is rolled into the trash heap! Your’e lucky that a more worthy Ohio State team probably won’t be in the big dance or they’d whip your fat butts like they did last year, and YOU KNOW IT! The Bucks have not one, not two, but THREE QBs who are better than yours, and a better, more talented team overall.