[yvonne]

Recency bias. It was a scant three years ago that Stanford's Rose Bowl opponent had not heard of the star player who's now the center of his NFL team's offense. Remember that kid missed out on college football's highest individual honor because voters outside the region hadn't seen him play? That had nothing whatsoever to do with the strength of the conference and everything to do with the lack of visibility.

[yvonne]

Recency bias. It was a scant three years ago that Stanford's Rose Bowl opponent had not heard of the star player who's now the center of his NFL team's offense. Remember that kid missed out on college football's highest individual honor because voters outside the region hadn't seen him play? That had nothing whatsoever to do with the strength of the conference and everything to do with the lack of visibility.