This is why @espn wants the all the teams ranked in the @SECFootbaII.
Its all designed to drive veiwership to the network because ESPN has paid a significant premium to own the SEC television rights.
Its all a circle jerk. It increases ESPN's ability to charge a premium for Ad placement on their network with these sort of numbers.
Rank other teams without a bias and eyes turn to those schools which ESPN does not have the biggest investment in.
Anyone with eyes can see what is going on. The SEC hasn't won a natty in how many years?
They are not the same conference in this new NIL era and ESPN is still trying to prop them up!
You are using SEC logic on the conf champ game scenario. They are keeping SMU and Duke from being ranked which then denies improving our SoS., while keeping very avg 3-loss SEC teams in the rankings. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy. Too bad the ACC leadership doesn’t squeal publicly about this and make membership in the conference mean something.
8-1 Miami
#5 in BCS rankings
#12 in TV viewership, therefore
#7 in CFP rankings
7-2 Alabama
#6 in BCS rankings
#1 in TV viewership, therefore
#3 in CFP rankings
🤔
The CFP committee is never beating the SEC bias allegations: 📝
- 2-loss Alabama ranked ahead of UCLA
- 2-loss Texas ranked ahead of Miami after barely losing at Notre Dame w/o best player
- 2-loss Kentucky ranked ahead of Wake Forest
Let's just rename the CFP the SEC Invitational. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Tonight I was told UCLA is better than Miami cause they won at 5-4 Minnesota while Miami, without its best player, lost by a TD @ No. 5 ND. Bruins deserve credit for no loss. But a 6 spot drop?
Not shocked, but you can’t tell me you watch ball & agree. Even the metrics call BS.
Let me explain the bias I'm referring to: The committee -without seeing anything head to head - automatically assumes that the 3rd, 4th, 5th SEC teams are better than the No. 2 ACC team. (This was reflected yet again in these rankings.) Might Kentucky and all these SEC teams be better than Wake? Perhaps. But how would they or anybody know? When you always assume a 2-loss SEC team is better than a 1-loss ACC team without any evidence that would hold up in court, that's bias.
Kentucky has lost by 28 points IN TWO DIFFERENT GAMES THIS YEAR.
Their best win is 6-3 South Carolina by 1 point in overtime.
7-2 Kentucky, with that résumé, is ranked ahead of 8-1 Texas Tech (who has two ranked wins) and 8-1 Wake Forest (who has won five straight games by 24+ points).
The SEC rigging has to stop, or the sport won’t be around for much longer.
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