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James Madison?  Tulane?  What a joke.  

They still can’t get it right.  The rationale for taking Miami, a team that couldn’t win a conference that was so weak that its Champion didn’t get in over a team that rattled off 10 straight, most of them blow outs, is absurd.  It was a week one game.

Take the best 4 Conference champs.  Next 8 picked by the computer.  If there is no Power 5 school.  Oh,well., tough.   

The 12 best teams should be in.

They will never get it "right" because there is no right.  In fact, I think not getting it "right" is a feature, not a bug, as it allows for entertaining blather on sports radio.

It used to be that in order to win a national title, you had to win week in and week out.  You could *maybe* afford one loss over the course of the season (at least if you were in the SEC), but you pretty much had to have a near spotless record, and a loss meant a very real possibility that you might miss out to another 1-loss team with a slightly better record.  Thus, every game mattered, and since most teams couldn't sniff the playoffs, they could at least entertain themselves with a nice bowl someplace warm at the end of the year.

Now, you have 12 teams (and if the Big Ten gets its way, you will have many more).  The bottom half have no business competing for a national title.  DIdn't win your conference?  Who cares.  Now teams feel entitled to be in the playoffs even though they lost *two* games early in the season because, apparently, early season game don't count as much as late season thrashings of *checks notes* Syracuse and Stanford, teams a combined 7-17.  The bottom line is the Irish lost two games, and ran rufshot over the rest of the schedule because the toughest team on there was 8-4 Pitt and 9-3 USC.  BYU at 11-2, Vanderbilt at 10-2 also got left out.  I mean, everything is going to be arbitrary (and even if you leave it up to a computer, it is arbitrary what criteria go into the score you use).  I have no problem with Miami being selected and Notre Dame being left out; after all, Miami beat Notre Dame.

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[BostonCard]

James Madison?  Tulane?  What a joke.  

They still can’t get it right.  The rationale for taking Miami, a team that couldn’t win a conference that was so weak that its Champion didn’t get in over a team that rattled off 10 straight, most of them blow outs, is absurd.  It was a week one game.

Take the best 4 Conference champs.  Next 8 picked by the computer.  If there is no Power 5 school.  Oh,well., tough.   

The 12 best teams should be in.

They will never get it "right" because there is no right.  In fact, I think not getting it "right" is a feature, not a bug, as it allows for entertaining blather on sports radio.

It used to be that in order to win a national title, you had to win week in and week out.  You could *maybe* afford one loss over the course of the season (at least if you were in the SEC), but you pretty much had to have a near spotless record, and a loss meant a very real possibility that you might miss out to another 1-loss team with a slightly better record.  Thus, every game mattered, and since most teams couldn't sniff the playoffs, they could at least entertain themselves with a nice bowl someplace warm at the end of the year.

Now, you have 12 teams (and if the Big Ten gets its way, you will have many more).  The bottom half have no business competing for a national title.  DIdn't win your conference?  Who cares.  Now teams feel entitled to be in the playoffs even though they lost *two* games early in the season because, apparently, early season game don't count as much as late season thrashings of *checks notes* Syracuse and Stanford, teams a combined 7-17.  The bottom line is the Irish lost two games, and ran rufshot over the rest of the schedule because the toughest team on there was 8-4 Pitt and 9-3 USC.  BYU at 11-2, Vanderbilt at 10-2 also got left out.  I mean, everything is going to be arbitrary (and even if you leave it up to a computer, it is arbitrary what criteria go into the score you use).  I have no problem with Miami being selected and Notre Dame being left out; after all, Miami beat Notre Dame.

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