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@SinPerfectt Ok so you agree quality of wins matters then. You are just adamant there are two completely equal tiers? Every P4 team is equal and every non power 4 team is equal?

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@BeatinTheBookie Yes, if there are 5 top 25 matchups where winners add quality wins and their resume becomes better than Alabama’s

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@T_kopplin30 Wait, all I’ve seen is Oklahoma is a terrible loss for Texas… are they now a quality loss? When did everyone decide OU wasn’t terrible? I missed that

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@charleycollier_ Head to head matters! Well, except for when my team lost at home lol

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@BamaSportsball @Justin_Albers That is in no way relevant to the point of them moving during a bye. That is a different conversation. Also, it’s absolutely not an FCS schedule.

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@TheCFBAdvocate Not really, but it’s not like there are different deserving teams back that far. 21-35 you could select randomly and I’d likely be just as not offended by who fell out

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If team A doesn’t play, does their resume improve? No. If team B does play and wins, does their resume improve? Yes. Dropping in a bye week is actually the best representation of focusing on actual resume of anything they do. (There is an assumption that it wasn’t just a response to public sentiment of course but the logic actually makes sense)

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@hgvhjnh @Justin_Albers That is an entirely separate conversation that involves evaluation of the teams being played. 1-0 is better than 0-0 even if you beat Howard, although in that case barely

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@davideckert98 I think UCLA was more of a correction after getting another solid win, combined with a big win by Oregon over OSU (kinda as discussed by others as this is not the OSU team Texas faced)

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@dreingar @wakeup307 @CF_Budge Texas

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@CF_Budge I feel like this is an inaccurate perception. People think dropping during a bye is being punished. You are being passed by teams that have a win on their resume they didn’t the last time you compared them. That’s how it should be. 1-0 is much better than 0-0

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@GroveChill @PolicyWook @SatReportCFB There are 2 lists with the same number of matchups. Without thinking you should have known your total needed to be even not odd.

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@dubsonlysports Did you just discredit OSU who beat Indiana on the road because they aren’t good now with their backup QB (completely irrelevant at the time of the game)?

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@izzyT4948 @RM_7SS @Tom28932566 @ZehDuck To be fair this is exactly how it should be done. And losing at home should be more penal

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They switched Miami and ND last year after both stayed home and watched conference championship games. If they think Tennessee beating Kentucky at home is sufficient enough to cover Bama beating LSU on the road to put them in the same pod then they will jump you up based on head to head. It likely is not

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@NBA @Lakers @nyknicks Friendly reminder of how bad Nico Harrison was at his job

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@CharlieS_TFB A better win*

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@veryhotsoup @RiggsBarstool As a 5, I think people just way over-estimate how good a 4 is vs how incapable of bad shots they are