2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #3 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)

[heso 2791]

1 minute ago, ztejas said:

I think teams with permanent big program OOC rivals should get a little credit, too. USC/ND, SCAR/Clemson, FSU/Florida off the top of my head. 

I’ll give you USC. Having LSU & ND ooc is legit. Even ND makes sure they have a few marquee games on top of the shit they pack in there. 

The other ones, they definitely get some credit for sure. But those games mean shit often enough that they go into that 3rd group with LSU. 

[heso 2791]

7 minutes ago, ztejas said:

G5 Cincy MADE the CFP.

There were also a couple TCU, Utah seasons where they were legit top 5 teams playing in the G5.

You’re right, completely forgot about Cincinnati. I’m a dumbass. 

[Magus Ossis 2797]

Wasn't the old BCS "formula" really just a composite of the human polls with an average of the more popular computer algorithms as an add-on?

[Crockett 490]

42 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

I think committees do a decent job, when it's the march madness bracket. I'm only upset if a team that clearly belongs in the conversation for #1 gets left out. I don't feel so bad about BYU, Boise, or any two-loss P4 being left out of the playoffs because they never would have had a chance in the BCS or 4-team CFP days.

What kind of logic is this? The system was horribly exclusive and unfair before, so if it's still unfair, just a little less so, then so what? Football is a game of direct competition, why are we having biased judges scoring for access? Let teams settle it on the field and come up with the most unbiased system possible for access. 

[dcar00 14181]

44 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

Wasn't the old BCS "formula" really just a composite of the human polls with an average of the more popular computer algorithms as an add-on?

Yes Coaches, AP, Computers

[Dnaguy 11943]

47 minutes ago, Magus Ossis said:

Wasn't the old BCS "formula" really just a composite of the human polls with an average of the more popular computer algorithms as an add-on?

Not at first. But after Oklahoma lost in the Big12 championship to K state but still went to the National championship game they changed it to use the polls or something

Before that it was a computer formula or something.

Edited 9 hours ago by Dnaguy

[Pimphand 5735]

It was 2/3rd human and 1/3 4 of the 6 computer polls with high and low rankings tossed out.

[jimmyjazz 45898]

Some of those computer polls were flat out stupid.  Of course, all of the human polls are flat out stupid.

[chainsaw 9865]

1 hour ago, Crockett said:

What kind of logic is this? The system was horribly exclusive and unfair before, so if it's still unfair, just a little less so, then so what? Football is a game of direct competition, why are we having biased judges scoring for access? Let teams settle it on the field and come up with the most unbiased system possible for access. 

BYU and Boise aren't undefeated. G5s with 1+ loss and weak conference runner-ups (whether P4 or G5) have never had a legitimate claim to the chance at winning a national championship. Leaving them out of the playoff is kind of like failing to nominate a good (but not Oscar-worthy) acting performance in a year when there's two or three clearly better, clearly Oscar-caliber performances in that category.

This is not a 2004-2005 Auburn situation, nor is it like any of the other famous snubs that cast doubt on who the best team in college football was at the end of the season.

Edited 8 hours ago by chainsaw

[Ignatius 4017]

2 hours ago, Js1 said:

yeah, I like our scheduling philosophy.  If we move to 9 game SEC schedule, we should continue to schedule: 

1 major P4 program
1 in-state G5 school (either within our system or Rice)
1 nearby G5 school

I’m totally on board with this, and I’d be in favor of playing one of the 2 OOC chump games in November like the rest of this conference does. Not only does it give you an almost bye week at a time when most of the team is at least a little banged up, but it reduces the number of September swelter games we have to endure. If one of those games get replaced by an SEC game early on, at least every other year it won’t be in Austin…