Postby billybud » Thu Nov 14, 2019 11:41 am
Spence...that the Committee works backwards is just your opinion...
And is the favorite opinion of conspiratorialists.
When the CFP was set up...the Committee was given these guidelines:
The criteria to be provided to the selection committee must be aligned with the ideals of the commissioners, Presidents, athletic directors and coaches to honor regular season success while at the same time providing enough flexibility and discretion to select a non‐champion or independent under circumstances where that particular non‐champion or independent is unequivocally one of the four best teams in the country.
Some of the guidelines and protocols expected to be established to guide the committee would include, but not be limited to, the following:
While it is understood that committee members will take into consideration all kinds of data including polls, committee members will be required to discredit polls wherein initial rankings are established before competition has occurred;
Any polls that are taken into consideration by the selection committee must be completely open and transparent to the public;
Strength of schedule, head‐to‐head competition and championships won must be specifically applied as tie‐breakers between teams that look similar;
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Committee members associated with any team under consideration during the selection process will be required to recuse themselves from any deliberations associated with that team;
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(When creating the College Football Playoff in June of 2012, the 11 university presidents, 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletics director unanimously adopted the preceding document which established the guiding principles and the basis for selecting and ranking teams. When the selection committee later added more details and specific operating procedures, those resulted in this full “College Football Playoff Selection Committee Protocol.”)
The committee will select the teams using a process that distinguishes among otherwise comparable teams by considering:
..Conference championships won,
..Strength of schedule,
..Head‐to‐head competition,
..Comparative outcomes of common opponents (without incenting margin of victory), and,
..Other relevant factors such as key injuries that may have affected a team’s performance during the season or likely will affect its postseason performance.
It is my belief that the folks appointed to this task are honest, experienced folks who do their best to follow the guidelines to bring forth the four best teams to play it off.
Knowing that with millions of fans, there will be all to many who believe that this team or that team is a better choice.
“If short hair and good manners won football games, Army and Navy would play for the national championship every year.”