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Has ESPN’s FPI put in an algorithmic “glass ceiling” for Big12 teams? 🤔
Even factoring in the Big12’s strong bowl season, not a single one has made the FPI top 20, while the ACC (who had an abysmal post-season) still has FOUR teams in their top 15, including unranked 9-4 Louisville all the way up at #12 🤣
FPI has TEN SEC teams above the Big12’s top team, #21 ASU 🤷♂️, this is despite the Devils taking the former FPI #1 Texas to OT (& dominating them on the stat sheet)
How did FPI deal with that CFP result? Texas dropped 1 spot to #2 & ASU went up one whole
spot to #21
7-6 USC is #18, higher than any Big12 school…🤦♂️
BYU finished 11-2 and got stiff-armed by the CFP committee & media talking heads by not even being “in the conversation” for the last at-large spot. BYU was #32 in FPI before blowing out the Buffs and FINALLY breaking into the top 25, at #25 🤷♂️
Biased systems like ESPN’s FPI help give “cover” to the CFP committee to downgrade Big12 teams like BYU & have to be eliminated or fixed… with the new algorithms being made completely transparent
FPI can no longer be taken seriously, yet it is currently the framework from which ESPN &
the CFP committee derive their Strength of Schedule and Strength of Record rankings that they quote in their CFP selections shows
FIX THIS NOW!
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Rankings Reaction 📝
• There isn’t a team in College Football that receives more special treatment than Alabama. Nick Saban’s not there anymore. Giving him the benefit of the doubt was somewhat understandable most years, but the coddling has to stop now. Getting destroyed by 6-6 Oklahoma and beaten by 6-6 Vanderbilt is no big deal if you have the script A logo, but Miami coming up short against 9-3 Syracuse, who the committee thinks enough of to rank, is somehow a dealbreaker for a 10-2 team. Ridiculous.
• When I brought up Missouri four or five weeks ago and pointed out their undeserving ranking in numerous weeks, it wasn’t for no reason. Missouri staying at the exact same ranking after losing to South Carolina was all we needed to see. There was a clear push to keep Missouri ranked at any and all costs to give Alabama the “ranked win” they desperately needed for this exact scenario to have a talking point in comparison to a team like Miami.
• While they were doing everything in their power to keep Missouri ranked to boost Alabama’s résumé, they were also keeping Duke unranked at all costs. Duke is 9-3, lost to #12 Miami on the road, took #8 SMU to OVERTIME, and lost to Georgia Tech on the road after leading in the 4th quarter. Never once ranked or even mentioned in consideration for it. Barred Miami and SMU from a ranked win.
• How are Missouri, UNLV, and Illinois ranked over Syracuse? It doesn’t really matter at this point but that doesn’t change the fact that it makes no sense. Syracuse is 9-3 and has wins over #20 UNLV on the road and #12 Miami. How are they not ranked over UNLV with the head-to-head win in Las Vegas? They have more ranked wins than the other 3 combined, and losses that aren’t any worse than Missouri getting nuked twice or Illinois getting taken to overtime at home by the worst team in the Power 4.
• Yesterday I made a post about a blind résumé of a 10-2 team. 84% of the 27,000 people who voted on it said they would rank the team in the Top 12. That résumé is BYU’s. The Cougars are getting shoved down to #18 for seemingly no reason. They are 10-2 and have a Top 10 win over #8 SMU and the committee treats them like an afterthought.
BYU at No. 9 is bad enough, but slotting them five spots behind Miami is completely incoherent.
"What will it take if the resume that they put together does not matter?"
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