re: If head-to-head doesn't matter, what's the point of a playoff?

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This is where the lack of clear criteria and voting guidelines becomes a problem, and scenarios similar to this are going to come up almost every year.

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Since you are such a big fan of the BCS, surely you see that it had none of "clear criteria and voting guidelines" you speak of.

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You act like the BCS was so clear, when in fact it's just that you were used to it.

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I'd say you need to work on your comprehension skills. It's hard for me to complain about where OM is ranked because I don't have any clue how the committee ranks teams. It obviously isn't head to head, which it appeared to be last week. I'd guess it's now going by "quality losses", but next week it could be which teams colors they feel are the most appealing.

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Since you are such a big fan of the BCS, surely you see that it had none of "clear criteria and voting guidelines" you speak of.

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The BCS had it's formula and stuck to it. They may have never released the exact content of it, but they made it known what mattered and what didn't (Conference titles, quality wins, SOS, etc.). Can the same be said of the committee? Last time I checked no one other than those 13 members know what carries the most weight in their voting system.

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If this is an indication of how the committee will act going forward, then how will their openly bad-faith conduct affect the legitimacy of the playoff system?

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man, there are only 4 teams making the play off. sorry, but both ole miss and LSU are out. there will most certainly 4 or more other teams in the country that will be undefeated or have only one loss. the nation is determined not to be SEC centric. the SEC champ will get in unless it's the east champ that upsets the west champ and the east champ has 2 losses. these idiots on the committee are going to be "objective" in their minds and there are 5 conferences, notre dame and the mid conferences. they will make sure that "bias" is not shown. one or even two of the big 5 will get left out and the SEC could be one of them if the champ has 2 losses. it's bull shite but the SEC west beating each other will not even be considered. having a 4 team playoff is stupid and a big step backward from the BCS imo. an 8 team playoff is the only way to go.

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if LSU would have had a viable quaterback ready for life after Zach and a middle linebacker worth a crap they wouldn't have lost those 2 games . Im not calling out the coaching staff , shite happens in sports . A lot of LSU fans think we deserve. to be higher ? Why because we beat OLE MISS ? We looked horrible against MSU , the worst 5 point loss ever in the history of college football and then looked like a high school team against Auburn. We deserve to be right where we are ranked.

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Since none of you seem to have the ability to comprehend and discuss the OP, let me simplify it for you.

Either head-to-head matters or it doesn't.

If it does, then the playoff committee is a fraud.

If it doesn't, then what is the point of conducting a head-to-head playoff?

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So if the team that loses the national championship game has a better resume than the team that beat them, you're O.K. with the loser being crowned national champion? Really?

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No. Because that is not the format under which the college football season is being played.

What is the format under which college football is being played?

The issue of head to head and whether it matters is not binary. It matters, but it's not everything.

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Again, who is "they"?

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"They" were the people that ran the BCS computer rankings system. You do understand that be BCS computers were only 1/3 of the formula right? You also understand that their main function was to balance out the rankings, which the computer did by being completely unbiased right?

Now do you realize that this committee is just a mini version of those two human polls without the balance of the unbiased computers?