(03-06-2018 01:24 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(03-06-2018 01:22 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(03-06-2018 12:05 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  Alabama was selected for the playoff 4 spot because of bias.

The only way to get rid of bias in an FBS playoff is for autobids for conference champs.

If you don't like the playoff games, don't watch them. We already don't watch the majority of the bowl games which mean nothing. Banning teams in the division from ever playing for a national championship borders on racketeering. It is criminal.

You act like P5 leagues have auto-bids to the playoffs, but they don't. Nobody does, it's all up to the committee.

The committee has to make the best choices it can given the limits it faces, namely four slots to fill, and the available evidence.

By all accounts, they've done a good job, as their selections comport with the human polls, the computers, everything.

Circular logic.
Computer rankings can influence how poll voters vote. Once the committee votes their released polls can influence the other voters as well and committee is given the computer results in making their votes.

It's not circular. First, the computers aren't influenced by anything but the inputs, the performance numbers.

Poll voters will rely on a variety of sources - games they watch, games they read about, computer rankings, what others are saying about teams, etc. They rely on the available evidence too.

The one idea with no traction is the notion that the CFP determines the AP and coaches polls. For the only CFP vote hat matters, the final one, the AP and Coaches come out first.

There just isn't any ranking system in creation that is going to have Alabama behind Arkansas State, if you believe it's because of 'circular logic' you're deluding yourself.