Yahoo Sports’ Caroline Fenton, Jason Fitz and Adam Breneman react to the latest College Football Playoff rankings and discuss the chaos that the seeding system is creating. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast – and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
This week, and only the 3rd week ever, only one team is seeded where they’re actually ranked, and that’s the #1 team in all the land.
Oregon is the #1 ranking team and the #1 seeded team.
Every other team in this week’s college football playoff rankings is not seeded in a way that matches their rankings.
That’s broken.
I, I think there’s going to be a lot of.
Controversy when if Indiana loses that game to Ohio State, about whether a one loss Indiana team that had the worst schedule in the Big 10.
They played the 6 bottom Big 10 teams.
Indiana played all of them.
That’s how bad their schedule was if they are deserving to be in the playoff versus a possible 3 loss Alabama team if they lose the conference championship game.
Win your games.
That’s what everybody says, is win your games.
Here’s the one thing I will remind you.
The College Football Playoff Committee just told us that despite the fact Tennessee didn’t win their game, Tennessee is still deserving of being a playoff team.
They did not put them out of the top 12.
The College Football Playoff Committee, as instructed, has said, I know you lost, you’re still a playoff team.
It is not Tennessee’s fault that the seeding system is what would prevent them from making the playoffs.
That’s what drives me crazy about this.
The SEC has been so cannibalistic that Head to head is an incredibly important metric traditionally in the college football playoff, when we’re talking about tiebreakers for conference championship games.
Well, we have 6 or 7 teams in the SEC that have all beaten up on each other.
So now it’s, I don’t think that head to head should be the number one most important thing.
It should be a true body of work, quality of wins, and quality of losses.
In a chaotic year, what if, as we sit right now, State, according to the rank, according to the standings in the Mountain West, Colorado State is going to take on Boise State.
What happens if Colorado State beats Boise State and the army loses to Notre Dame?
Who’s the highest ranked group of 5 team that even deserves to be in this thing?
And like, we’re sitting here saying, well, it’s OK, it’s Boise State.
They belong in and if they happen to get a 4 seed, what a great story.
Boise State, if they lose in the Mountain West, like, look, you and LV this week made their way back in, we joke about that.
You and LV would not be the team they play in the Mountain West.
It’s Colorado State as of.
Now if Colorado State beats them, they’re not a playoff team.
If Army loses a game, Army still can’t get a lot of street cred from the committee.
If they lose to Notre Dame, they’re not worthy.
Like, we could be sitting here talking about a bid thief that’s not even a ranked team coming in and suddenly stealing a bid from a team like Tennessee.
Y’all can’t tell me that that’s good for the sport.
Like I just, I don’t think letting somebody that steals a bid that just limps into the playoffs suddenly get their ass kicked instead of putting a deserving team.
It is ultimately good for the sport.
