I think they chickened out on leaving out the ACC entirely.
Bowls/Playoff Selection Sunday
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KBLEE
- Montgomery, IL
You could not put ND in over Miami. Miami literally beat ND.
Yes. They penalized BYU for losing a conference championship game but not Alabama
Miami literally lost to Louisville and Virginia. ND has a better resume overall, and it's not particularly close.
Even still, Alabama is the undeserving winner here.
The problem is that they scheduled good teams and they are affiliated with, ostensibly, a P4 conference. They only played 2 non-P4 teams.
The only justification is the one H-2H matchup, in week 1, that Miami won by 3 points at home. Pretty weak reason to flip their rankings at the last second.
Looking at the metrics, Notre Dame was the 3rd (Sagarin), 5th (SP+), 3rd (FPI), or 3rd (SRS) best team in college football, and there was somehow no room for them in a 12-team playoff where 5 SEC teams made it, despite there not being a top 5 SEC team in any of those metrics.
That's what's broken.
That's what's broken.
By 3 points, at home, in week 1? By that logic SMU should be in over Miami, Texas in over Oklahoma, etc etc. H-2-H should be a very minor factor, not the overriding consideration.
Miami beat them head to head. Plus ND's schedule after September was crap. I wonder if our Illini would have gotten in if they had beaten Washington & Wiscy and ended up 10-2? Illini beat two conference champions, Western Michigan & Duke!
Apparently they only considered head to head if teams are ranked in consecutive spots. Last week BYU was between ND and Miami so head to head was not factored in. With BYU dropping it now brought head to head between ND and Miami into play.
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Don’t have any strong opinions about this either way but the committee should have swapped their rankings when these two teams played their last games. I know the whole picture matters and the teams that these two teams play continue to earn wins and losses but if it really just came down to a head to head match they already had that data.
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I can only hope that we would have bumped a 3 loss Bama.
Seems like an overly specific and narrow post-hoc justification to me.
Weird. I 100% disagree...
What's the point of playing a game if the result of that game isn't used as a direct, first comparison?
The inconsistency with that logic is that Alabama wasn't dropped for losing, but BYU was. Alabama got bumped over ND last week for squeaking by a terrible Auburn team, and then didn't drop from getting blasted by a good Georgia team.
I would think ND gets a NY day game
The Galloping Ghost
- Washington, DC
B12 not equal to the big 2
OrangeBlue98
Iowa is not in a great spot right now (LvilleILL1)
- Des Moines, IA
Totally agree. A reward for the seniors and additional practices for returning players. That alone is worth it.
Logic and the NCAA have long been enemies.
Am I wrong in thinking that the Big Ten actually got a very favorable playoff seeding in terms of matchups? I could totally see three Big Ten teams in the final 4.
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