Computers: "4 of the Top 5 are SEC"... Humans: "No, 4 of the Top 5 are Big Ten"

This is interesting...
Compare the top computer model (Sagarin) to the AP's latest Top 25, and notice how the media has literally INVERTED the Top 5 in the Big Ten's favor:

• Sagarin Ratings

1. SEC
2. SEC
3. Big Ten
4. SEC
5. SEC

• Latest AP Top 25

1. Big Ten
2. Big Ten
3. SEC
4. Big Ten
5. Big Ten

This is an example of why computer rankings (especially late in the season, with a large sample size) are vastly superior to human polls.

Every single SEC team is underrated by the AP, compared to what the more accurate & objective computer models say. The conference is being punished for being the best conference, when the opposite should be happening.

There is absolutely no way the SEC is going to move to a 9-game schedule with this kind of subjective bias in the ranking systems. It would actually be more sensible to move to a 7-game schedule, since the league is by far the deepest in the country and already cannibalizing itself with 8 games (and that's with Florida, Oklahoma, and Auburn having down seasons!).

Some wonder why the Big Ten and sports media have put enormous pressure on the SEC to add a 9th conference game... Well, this is why. The rest of college football hates and envies the SEC. The reasons are numerous and obvious.

Sooner than later, the SEC (Sankey) is going to have to address this problem, otherwise deserving SEC teams will be left out of the expanded playoff.

The solutions are to:

(1) Switch to using computer models for ranking & selecting the teams (similar to the BCS era) instead of biased human polls & committees.
Or....
(2) Give the SEC six (6) automatic bids to the playoff (and if it expands to 16, then give the SEC 8 automatic bids).

Sankey will have leverage to negotiate this. The fact is, the CFP needs the SEC more than the SEC needs the CFP... It has more powerhouse brands than all the other leagues combined.