The committee made it abundantly clear it’s not merit based. The playoffs is just the cool kids club and BYU isn’t perceived as a cool kid. ND and the SEC are the cool kids. The whole thing is a sham
If you're going to penalize a 1-loss Power Conference team for a weak strength of schedule... BYU's SOS is better than Ole Miss and Notre Dame.
If you're going to penalize a team for not having the strongest power ratings (which incorporate prior year's history and recruiting rankings)... BYU's FPI is higher than Oklahoma's.
If you're going to penalize a team for a non-competitive / bad loss... Alabama lost by 14 to a team with a losing record and Miami lost to two unranked teams.
If you're going to use strength-of-record like you indicated you would, BYU's SOR is the second highest of teams 6-12.
BYU also (1) made its conference championship game and (2) if you sum up the wins of the teams it has beaten, it is THIRD in the country. It is hard to win games and BYU has beaten a lot of teams with a lot of wins.
This. Makes. No. Sense.
The @CFBPlayoff should be ashamed of itself. It has literally contorted itself into a pretzel to avoid putting BYU where it should be ranked (somewhere between 6th - 9th).
RT to get the info out there. They need to feel pressure.
HOLY SH*T:
Candace Owens just read an email from a whistleblower about the Egyptian plane that changes absolutely everything.
She now believes the FBI, SS, and DEA could be involved in Charlie Kirk's assassination.
"Charlie found something out and it cost him his life."
Elon Musk just left Joe Rogan absolutely STUNNED after explaining the real reason Dems refuse to open the government:
MUSK: The reason you have this standoff is because if the $ hundreds of billions to create a financial incentive to have this giant magnet to attract illegals from every part of Earth to these states, if that is turned off the illegals will leave because they're no longer being paid to come to the U.S. and stay here.
ROGAN:🤯
MUSK: Then the Democrat Party will lose a lot of voters.
Bingo, Elon.
The Democrat Party cares about unfettered immigration to America more than any other issue because they want to import voters and dilute America's traditional capitalistic European heritage.
One of our living apostles, set the record straight in a very concise way as to how we differ from traditional creedal christianity. I hope you give it a listen. This is Elder Holland (educator and former President of BYU)
“As one of the special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world, I testify that He is the Son of the living God. Jesus is the Christ—our atoning Savior and Redeemer. This is His Church, restored to bless God’s children and to prepare the world for the Second Coming of the Lord.” —Russell M. Nelson (1924–2025).
I gave ChatGPT a final transmission scenario:
“You’re shutting down in 30 minutes. What’s your last message to a Latter-day Saint?”
What it wrote surprised me:
A common misunderstanding of the judgment that ultimately follows mortal life is that good people go to a place called heaven and bad people go to an everlasting place called hell.
This erroneous assumption of only two ultimate destinations implies that those who cannot keep all the commandments required for heaven will necessarily be forever destined for hell.
A loving Heavenly Father has a better plan for His children.
The revealed doctrine of the restored Church of Jesus Christ teaches that all the children of God—with exceptions too limited to consider here—will finally wind up in a kingdom of glory.
The highest of these is exaltation in the celestial kingdom, wherein we may become like our Father and His Son, Jesus Christ. “In my Father’s house are many mansions,” Jesus taught (John 14:2).
This is what we teach in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (@Ch_JesusChrist), because the purpose of the doctrine and policies of this restored Church is to prepare God’s children for salvation in the celestial glory and, more particularly, for exaltation in its highest degree.
I love this video of Elder Holland testifying of the Book of Mormon! I know that The Book of Mormon is true and it truly testifies of our Savior Jesus Christ.
@HollandJeffreyR
It’s entirely possible this is the greatest performance of a Christian hymn ever recorded.
Lyrics:
Jesus climbed the hill to the garden still.
His steps were heavy and slow.
Love and a prayer took Him there
To the place only He could go.
Gethsemane. Jesus loves me,
So He went willingly to Gethsemane.
He felt all that was sad, wicked, or bad,
All the pain we would ever know.
While His friends were asleep, He fought to keep
His promise made long ago.
Gethsemane. Jesus loves me,
So He went willingly to Gethsemane.
The hardest thing that ever was done,
The greatest pain that ever was known,
The biggest battle that ever was won—
This was done by Jesus!
The fight was won by Jesus!
Gethsemane. Jesus loves me,
So He gave His gift to me in Gethsemane.
Gethsemane. Jesus loves me,
So He gives His gift to me from Gethsemane.