Analyzing the Current College Football Playoff Rankings

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00:00College football playoff rankings reactions. You know,

00:06as you look at the top 25, what is most important of course is

00:10the top 15 and I would argue who is at 11 and who is at 12.

00:16Alabama as of this moment would earn the final at-large berth to

00:21the college football playoff if things go chalk throughout

00:24conference championship Saturday. That's a big if but

00:28Alabama is in that pole position, not Miami, not the

00:32other two loss, two, three loss SEC teams in Ole Miss or South

00:38Carolina. So, Zeno, the rankings overall, what is your

00:41biggest grievance with what the college football playoff

00:43selection committee displayed on Tuesday night? I mean, again,

00:48it's hard to separate the rankings versus the structure

00:51that they're using. I tweeted this out. Look, I had enough of

00:54this Boise in the four seed crap. Like, this is just

00:58ridiculous. There is no world where Boise deserves a bye,

01:03okay? As the quote fourth best team in the country. They're

01:07not, they're not, they're not even close to it. There's a

01:09dozen teams better than Boise and the fact of the matter is

01:13is that the way the structure they set this thing up is

01:15ridiculous. I have all the respect in the world for SMU

01:18but they're certainly not the third best team in the country

01:20and deserve a bye. Like, that's not what this should be. I

01:23don't know why we have to do this ridiculous system. Rank

01:25the twelve best teams, top four get a bye, end the

01:28conversation. Like, that's really what this is about and

01:31what has been set up from this thing which again, you know, I

01:34don't know if you heard two weeks ago, Steve Sarkeesian of

01:37Texas, Lane Kiffin of Ole Miss had this back and forth. It

01:40wasn't directed at each other but they were talking about

01:42conference championship games and should they matter and is

01:45it more beneficial to play in one versus not play in one.

01:48Penn State and Notre Dame are going to wildly benefit from

01:52not playing this weekend, right? Like, if this is the old

01:56four-team system. Ohio State. Penn State. No, Penn State not

02:00play. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're right about Penn State.

02:03I'm sorry. Notre Dame and Ohio State are going to benefit from

02:06not playing this weekend, right? And again, think about

02:10what the situation for Penn State playing this weekend. If

02:13they were to play this weekend and lose in last year's format,

02:16they would likely be out, right? Like, this would be an

02:19elimination game for Penn State because a two-loss team

02:22wouldn't get in. Notre Dame would certainly already be in

02:25because they don't have to play this weekend and take a second

02:28loss. This is why I was anti-expansion because again,

02:32these games take less value. These games hold less weight

02:35because it doesn't matter really what happens to Penn

02:37State this weekend. They're going to the college football

02:40playoff. Notre Dame isn't going to be dinged for not playing in

02:42the conference championship game. They're going to the

02:44college football playoff. Well, we've opened the aperture up

02:47and there's this great conversation about Alabama,

02:49Ole Miss, South Carolina, who belongs in and who doesn't. In

02:52reality, the drop off between those teams and the top two or

02:56three is so great. It doesn't really matter in the grand

03:00scheme of things. So, you know, again, I look at this, the

03:03ranking system. I really think they need to get rid of the

03:06automatic bids. I mean, if this is proof of this whole thing,

03:08this is that this is utterly ridiculous because there are

03:11five or six teams that would wax Boise State and SMU and that's

03:15fair. And oh, by the way, I hate to break it to you because

03:17losses actually matter. Boise State's not even the best group

03:20of five team. That's Tulane. And unfortunately because Tulane

03:23lost to the double-digit favorite last week to Memphis,

03:26they're not in this conversation anymore. Remember,

03:28Notre Dame lost to the double-digit favorite to

03:31Northern Illinois, but they did it in the beginning of the year

03:33and Tulane did it at the end of the year and ultimately look

03:36what happens and look what the difference is.

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