re: If Ohio State beats Wisconsin they will get in over us.

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Yep. How many times did the BCS get it wrong? Not that many at all. We should've just kept the BCS formula and taken the top 4 from there. The committee isn't about getting the four best teams in though, it's about making sure everybody is taken care of as much as possible

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The BCS ranking system had some significant issues. The computer models were not understood or transparent. Some of their results defied common sense. So much so that outliers were dropped before avseraging them. The polls used also have flaws, such as voters having biases, the tendency to overreact to the most recent game results, etc.

Those were some of the key reasons the committee model was crafted. It's approach, metrics and "rules" for evaluating and ranking the teams were carefully crafted to ensure an equitable ranking of teams relative to one another.

The CFP rankings produced are clearly better than those produced by the flawed computer models and polls averaged together to produce the BCS rankings.