Playoffs, 4 BEST teams in country, right?

They shouldn’t release a poll at all until either conference championship week or the Sunday after

They do a top 25 because fans and the media like polls.

I guarantee you they spend very little time on anything outside the top 10-15.

Actually, the committee now says the best resume' or some shite but technically, Yes, it's supposed to be the 4 best teams. I guess, who knows what the criteria will be this week.

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Terrible idea because they want to provide transparency into their rankings and weekly rankings do just that. It shows you how they weigh various factors up to that point in the season.

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Tell that to TCU....

Eta: if your #1 criteria is a conference champion, why in the hell have a poll until that is completed? What happens to ND this year when they don’t win a conference championship game....

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if your #1 criteria is a conference champion

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That's not their #1 criteria. There is no #1 criteria.

They list what their criteria are and it's several things taken in their totality.

They make the pairings for all 6 of the New Year's Bowls.

Selection Committee Responsibilities

Rank the top 25 teams and assign the top four to semifinal sites.
Assign teams to New Year’s bowls.
Create competitive matchups.
Attempt to avoid rematches of regular-season games and repeat appearances in specific bowls.
Consider geography.

Participants in the New Year’s Bowls

Both participants in the Orange, Rose and Sugar Bowls are contracted outside the playoff arrange­ment (Big Ten and Pac-12 to Rose Bowl; SEC and Big 12 to Sugar Bowl; ACC to Orange Bowl against the highest ranked available team from the SEC, Big Ten and Notre Dame). If a conference champion qualifies for the playoff, then the bowl will choose a replacement from that conference. When those bowls host the semifinals and their contracted conference champions do not qualify, then the dis­placed champion(s) will play in one of the other New Year’s bowls.

When not hosting semifinals, the Cotton, Fiesta and Peach Bowls will welcome displaced conference champions and the top-ranked champion from a non-contract conference. The highest-ranked available teams will fill any other berths. The selection committee will make the pairings.

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Just like the bcs it should be the most deserving teams. Best is such a subjective term it's foolish to try to determine.

4 best teams really means a few we cant screw and the rest for tv ratings cause reasons.