re: The disrespect to the SEC

I don't speak for them (or anybody but me) but the committee's behavior is arbitrary to the point of great concern to me. Rankings are supposed to be discovered bottom-up from the results on the field. Instead it looks very much like they built the penultimate rankings top-down from the end result they wanted after next week to create the narratives needed to get to that result.

The committee as it presently exists is a horrible model. There are no hard rules governing their decision-making.