The OFFICIAL 2023 College Football RANDOM THOUGHTS Thread
- Thread starter Ed MOTHERFUCKING G
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Aye bro let me ask you a real question since you ain’t answer my question: With the CFP committee, who watches more games than you, knows more then you and conceivably understands the scheduling dynamics, why are they ranking teams the way they do? Can you explain it and the “SEC bias” to me?
Yes, they've literally studied this in scientific studies, and the bias comes from the following combination of factors.
1. Voters tend to bias towards teams in their own state, and teams that play schools in their state. Since way more voters and teams are based in the South than are based in the West, they tend to bias towards other teams in their region.
2. Voters tend to bias towards teams they watch. Since SEC teams top-to-bottom have better television deals, and since more voters are in their time zones so they see those games, then they bias towards those teams rather than Pac-12 games that come on at midnight.
3. Voters tend to give more weight towards "perception" of conference strength based on history than to actual conference strength in a given year. Since the SEC has the dominant perception of being the strongest conference, they automatically get that extra credit for conference strength regardless of how they've played that year.
4. Similarly, voters tend to give more weight to perception of conference strength rather than to actual games played. If there are 5 ranked teams in your conference, then the voters judge you more favorably based on that, even if you haven't played any of those ranked teams. And since OOC games have no impact on conference strength, playing a cupcake OOC schedule have very little impact on how strong your viewed.
5. Voters tend to have an outsized bias towards wins/losses over all over factors. So winning more games with a easy schedule is overvalued compared to winning slightly fewer games with a much tougher schedule.
Those would be the five most prominent reasons that the SEC ends up overrated in polling.
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
Wow breh I feel like I actually learned something here
That you’re even more full of shyt than I initially thought
Here are the 2023-2024 College Football Playoff Committee Members:
Outside of the UK AD there’s no SEC presence here and only 3 of these people have current ties to the Southeast. Again I call bullshyt on your claims of bias and the CFP committee doesn’t have to follow the polls, they’re free to choose teams however they want and they’re considering ALL of these points (schedules, strength of schedule, margin of victory, polls, head to head matchups, etc). I’ll trust their judgement over the ramblings of a biased madman, thanks
TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?
I walk around a little edgy already
Cody is a beast
AVXL
Laughing at you n*ggaz like “ha ha ha”
KJ 
I hope he just hyperextended his knee but that didn’t look good
I hope he just hyperextended his knee but that didn’t look good
I don't think Jeffersons leg is supposed to bend that way...
Nah, because of all the teams moving in, they actually made the schedules pretty tough.
In 2024, Oregon plays Ohio State, Michigan, Washington, UCLA, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Illinois, Purdue, and Maryland. Plus they're talking about Oregon State and Texas Tech OOC. That already gives them 11 teams from Big 5 squads including 3 top-10 opponents, that's a solid schedule.
It'll get easier the next year when they dodge both Michigan and Ohio State....but they'll still play Washington, Penn State, and USC in-conference, potentially Oregon State and Oklahoma State OOC.
Those "only play 1-2 good teams" Big-10 schedules will be a thing of the past.
DropTopDoc
20/20 Vision With my Buffs On
Wow breh I feel like I actually learned something here
That you’re even more full of shyt than I initially thought
Here are the 2023-2024 College Football Playoff Committee Members:
Outside of the UK AD there’s no SEC presence here and only 3 of these people have current ties to the Southeast. Again I call bullshyt on your claims of bias and the CFP committee doesn’t have to follow the polls, they’re free to choose teams however they want and they’re considering ALL of these points (schedules, strength of schedule, margin of victory, polls, head to head matchups, etc). I’ll trust their judgement over the ramblings of a biased madman, thanks
Disingenuous as fukk.
1. 3 members in SEC states, only 1 member in a Pac-12 state. 5 members living in the South right now, just 2 members living in the West right now.
2. 11 members from the two SEC time zones, only 2 members from the two Pac-12 time zones.
And points #3, #4, and #5 were irrelevant to where they live.
You really don't even try, do you?
You're the same person who said Tennessee was a good team and Utah was a bad team....how'd that argument go for you? Do you still believe the committee was completely unbiased when they ranked Tennessee #21 and didn't rank Utah at all?
Have you noticed that EVERY person in this thread who has commented on it besides you has said ranking Tennessee that high was a bunch of bullshyt?
DropTopDoc
20/20 Vision With my Buffs On
Tony D'Amato
It's all about the inches
I see 1 loss. Maybe. To Ohio State. Michigan is made for them
DropTopDoc
20/20 Vision With my Buffs On
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THEY'RE SCRAPPING AT the Arkansas/Missouri game 