Welp, I was about as wrong as possible with us behind BYU. Most seemed to think that bama or OU losing would have gotten us in (that was general consensus for most in media I think going into last week- but that didn’t fucking matter). Nope. Zero nuance. Zero attempt to make games people want to see. Zero care about TV ratings. Zero care about protecting OOC scheduling games. The committee (after seeing some green shoots in 2023 where they ignored the loss column with Florida state and did the right thing) has basically doubled down on the only thing that matters is counting losses in the loss column, regardless of schedule or who you played and NOTHING else is important beyond avoiding losses (CCG losses don’t count as data points for reasons).
we know this conclusively now, they have picked the absolute dumbest timeline that is the worst for the sport, and if we keep any loseable game in non conference we absolutely positively deserve what we get and should be sodomized by a rusty spiked dildo.
it’s the dumbest possible decision that likely costs the most money, the playoffs will be watched by friends and family in the first round and none of that makes sense to me (or the predictor stuff or the gambling markets from the time this was posted) but we have absolute clarity that it wasn’t a 65% chance it was more like a 5% chance and that was only going to hit if EVERYONE ended up with 3 losses.
huh. Ok then. Congrats on killing September football of not tomorrow than 5 years down the line when the schedules play out.