re: The committee's rankings are so much better than the polls

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they also seem to penalize bad losses more, so LSU & Auburn make sense ranked where they are 

The most confusing thing about the committee rankings is Clemson at 4; they have arguably one of the worst losses of all the 1 loss teams....

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Yeah, they have AU, MS & LSU in the right order.

Clemson's strength of schedule is significantly better than #s 5-10. The committee also considered their QB injury in their Syracuse loss. Syracuse isn't a terrible team.