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I can’t think of another sport that decides these things with a bunch of people sitting around casting ballots.

Actually, I think just about every sport decides their post-season tournament teams with a bunch of people sitting around casting ballots.


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It is kind of annoying to me that the most important resume item to pollsters is number of losses. But it's nothing new. That's the way it has always been as long as I can remember.

Without checking, I don't think the cfp committee has ever left out a team with X losses in favour of a team with X+1 losses. This year would have seemed an opportunity, with conference champs tOSU and $C each with at least relatively tough schedules and Bama with an atrociously light schedule, no conference championship, and a fairly bad loss in their final game to their toughest opponent. Last year would have been more obvious, with Penn State the Big Ten winner but having two losses being jumped by tOSU with one loss ... to Penn State.

In addition, no Power 5 team with two or fewer losses got left out of a New Years Six bowl.

There are a couple of spots where a team with more losses is ahead of another Power 5 team with fewer, but they are rare and typically not in places that really matter. For that matter, Stanford with 4 losses is ahead of at least 8 Power 5 teams with three or fewer losses - but positions 13 and below don't matter much.

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I can’t think of another sport that decides these things with a bunch of people sitting around casting ballots.

Actually, I think just about every sport decides their post-season tournament teams with a bunch of people sitting around casting ballots.


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It is kind of annoying to me that the most important resume item to pollsters is number of losses. But it's nothing new. That's the way it has always been as long as I can remember.

Without checking, I don't think the cfp committee has ever left out a team with X losses in favour of a team with X+1 losses. This year would have seemed an opportunity, with conference champs tOSU and $C each with at least relatively tough schedules and Bama with an atrociously light schedule, no conference championship, and a fairly bad loss in their final game to their toughest opponent. Last year would have been more obvious, with Penn State the Big Ten winner but having two losses being jumped by tOSU with one loss ... to Penn State.

In addition, no Power 5 team with two or fewer losses got left out of a New Years Six bowl.

There are a couple of spots where a team with more losses is ahead of another Power 5 team with fewer, but they are rare and typically not in places that really matter. For that matter, Stanford with 4 losses is ahead of at least 8 Power 5 teams with three or fewer losses - but positions 13 and below don't matter much.