No you don't. There was, like, this one year where there was a team that almost made the championship when they were, in reality, the third best team. It was the worst. A bunch of bad things hypothetically could have happened.
Jeff Long just said the committee would take suspensions into account
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I have this bad feeling that a two loss team will make the playoffs over a second one loss SEC team.
I think this last episode for Winston has hurt FSU more than him and could cost them in the event it's close between 4 and 5 and they happen to be on that bubble. If they lose a game they'll drop significantly and Winston fatigue will hurt them making a come back.
This is correct. Part of being a complete good team is deph at positions and overcoming missing players for whatever reason. This is a huge mistake.
It's starting to look like they will have as many reasons as needed to stray from real world results and logic to place almost any team in the playoffs without accountability. No accountability is a really bad model. Since they don't publish their votes they already solved that problem for themselves.
We've moved from a political/hypothetical ratings system ruled by writers and papers through a part-political/part algorithm championship game to a purely politically selected playoff. Somehow, this new committee feels like a mirror of our country's political catastrophe in the making. I wonder if we'll have a college football shutdown if one playoff faction doesn't like the other? 
This is stupid but probably won't matter. They will take the winner of the top 4 conferences not the 4 best teams. When they make their selection, I'd like to see what the BCS computers would have said.
This is absurd. It's essentially turning it from a team sport to an individual sport. So in effect what they're saying is Team A lost because it's star player was out, but we think they would have won had he been in the game. So does this carry over to the playoffs and the championship game? If Team A loses it's star player for one of those games and as a result loses that game...shouldn't they be declared the winner anyway? We all know if Colt hadn't gotten hurt...I'm just glad this wasn't in place then.
No, I doubt anyone is surprised. This committee crap was, is, and always will be stupid. No one seems to be able to explain why they (whoever they is I'm not sure) chose to use a committee instead of simply taking the top four from the BCS formula. All we can do is wait to see what happens and just hope the four teams are obvious so this committee doesn't have to start using their "criteria."
Everyone will get a trophy like we all got after pee wee football. Because we're not supposed to think that anybody is better than anybody else.
I've tried to reserve judgement about the whole thing until the rankings are released. Details like this, and other inconsistencies, are making it hard not think it'll be a mess. Hopefully there's enough scrutiny by the media, fans, and institutions that glaringly foolish selections aren't allowed.
The computers polls used in the BCS are still around. One can figure the BCS with Excel. I sure will.
So they are not going to use the game results as the absolute factor in deciding, but will instead use human imagination to figure out who would of won if so and so wasn't hurt or suspended.
Imagine this:
We use three out of four of our top running backs in any given game. If, Heaven forbid, we ever drop a game, we could declare the back we didn't use was held out because he was suspended for the game...if only he had been able to play that would have made the difference.
Imagine this:
We use three out of four of our top running backs in any given game. If, Heaven forbid, we ever drop a game, we could declare the back we didn't use was held out because he was suspended for the game...if only he had been able to play that would have made the difference.
Aren't suspensions supposed to have a negative effect on the team, so that the individual sees that their actions affect others?
What's next, counting touchdowns that got called back because of penalties? Trying to figure out how missing out on a five star recruit set a team back? The opportunities are endless.
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What's next, counting touchdowns that got called back because of penalties? Trying to figure out how missing out on a five star recruit set a team back? The opportunities are endless.
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And to think Long is Arkansas AD and essentially the SEC's representative on this committee. Imagine how the other 12 will think!!
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