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http://m.espn.go.com/ncf/story?storyId=10859331

The first top 25 ranking from the College Football Playoff's selection committee will be released Tuesday, Oct. 28, sources told ESPN.com.

The selection committee then will release its weekly regular-season rankings each Tuesday night, sources said. It's still undecided whether the final ranking will be released late Saturday night, Dec. 6, after the conference championships are played or Sunday, Dec. 7, sources said.
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Well that sucks. GT has zero chance of ever going to the Final Four unless it is undefeated. They say they are taking the top four teams from a ranking but earlier said that conference champions would matter in. How do you vote for Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia all year in your top four and then suddenly change after the conference championships to Alabama, Ohio St, FSU, and Texas?
 
VT was ranked 4th in pretty much every poll with 1 loss in week 7 of 2009. Odds are, if they'd kept winning, they would have stayed at least that high and made the playoffs. Undefeated Cincy and undefeated TCU would probably not have both jumped them.
 
midatlantech said:
Well that sucks. GT has zero chance of ever going to the Final Four unless it is undefeated. They say they are taking the top four teams from a ranking but earlier said that conference champions would matter in. How do you vote for Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia all year in your top four and then suddenly change after the conference championships to Alabama, Ohio St, FSU, and Texas?
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Are you off your medications? Let's take care of Wofford first.
 
ThisIsAtlanta said:
VT was ranked 4th in pretty much every poll with 1 loss in week 7 of 2009. Odds are, if they'd kept winning, they would have stayed at least that high and made the playoffs. Undefeated Cincy and undefeated TCU would probably not have both jumped them.
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This. It all depends on when the loss occurs, who it's too, and who you beat the remainder of the year.
 
The poll could be an attempt to initially bias the selections toward big-money teams. However I think this is good because it is transparency that will allow people to see and complain if there are biases in the process. It makes it harder for them to keep teams down without public outcry, and it makes it harder for them to suddenly select, say, all SEC teams at the last minute, over other teams that have been higher ranked.

But the cynic in me is sure this process will somehow be abused to our disadvantage.
 
if you are NOT undefeated you do not have a gripe. win your games and all will be ok.
 
Legal Jacket said:
The poll could be an attempt to initially bias the selections toward big-money teams. However I think this is good because it is transparency that will allow people to see and complain if there are biases in the process. It makes it harder for them to keep teams down without public outcry, and it makes it harder for them to suddenly select, say, all SEC teams at the last minute, over other teams that have been higher ranked.

But the cynic in me is sure this process will somehow be abused to our disadvantage.
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Where does passing "the eye test" come into play?
 
law_bee said:
if you are NOT undefeated you do not have a gripe. win your games and all will be ok.
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I dunno, sometimes a one loss team jumps and undefeated one. There's still tons of human subjectivity involved. Hopefully there will be full transparency in the selection process and committee members will have to justify their selections.
 
dressedcheeseside said:
I dunno, sometimes a one loss team jumps and undefeated one. There's still tons of human subjectivity involved. Hopefully there will be full transparency in the selection process and committee members will have to justify their selections.
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BCS never had an undefeated team from a BCS conference passed over by a one-loss team when bowl season came around. Even Cincinnati was ranked ahead of 1-loss Florida w/Tebow in 2009.
 
More importantly. ...what does Condy think?
 
http://espn.go.com/college-football...ff-selection-committee-sets-parameters-season

Updates on the process and the recusal policy.

Voting for the newest college football poll will be done using the same procedure and recusal policy used by the committee that chooses the 68-team field for NCAA men's basketball tournament. The voting will be broken down into tiers, with the panel first grouping teams and then coming to a consensus on how they should be ordered with numerous votes.

A committee member who is currently employed or compensated by a school, or who has an immediate family member at a school, will not be allowed to vote for that school.

The committee, which includes five current athletic directors, will meet in person for a day every week and their rankings will be released on Tuesday nights on ESPN.

"The concept will be, if the season ended today, these will be the rankings," College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock said Wednesday.
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http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/94936/college-football-playoff-qa

Mostly the same stuff, but also this:

Q: How will the seeding committee determine which teams play in which semifinal?

A: In theory, priority will be given to placing the No. 1 seed in the bowl geographically closest to its campus. For instance, if Florida State is No. 1, it would play in the semifinal at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, which would send the No. 2 team to the Rose Bowl.
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Where are all the people who wanted a playoff so we could eliminate all the controversy and subjectivity of the BCS system?
 
jacket67 said:
Where are all the people who wanted a playoff so we could eliminate all the controversy and subjectivity of the BCS system?
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4 controversial teams competing on the field is a lot better than 2 controversial teams competing on the field

Also, you can never eliminate all the controversy.
 
Just what we need - another poll that establishes position before the first game is played. And, then goes on to determine "strength of schedule". Why don't we just drop the charade and ask the network executives to tell us who will play for the marbles. It is all about TV ratings and revenue.
 
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