Next year, this won't happen.
As you know, in statistics, the larger the sample size, the bias is mitigated.
I dunno...I'd have to ask my actuarial science sophomore....
But I think it makes it worse. But I bet if we all listed our 12th place team....we would have 5-6 different answers. By the time you get down that far you're gonna have several different Alabama/Texas/FSU situations. Not one.
Yes, you mitigate by muting some of the national bitching because most of the country isn't gonna care that Oklahoma gets snubbed out at 13. But I bet Oklahoma fans care, just like we would when it happens to us.
I dunno why this is so damn hard.
6/8/12 conferences.
Re-rearrange the conferences.
6/8/12 conference champions are crowned.
There's your playoff teams.
Do with the FCS as you please. I don't really care if we have "crap games" on TV with Liberty making the playoffs. We're crowning a champion.
Who wants to see the Rangers and Diamondbacks in the WS? Nobody. But they're the ones who earned it by winning the games. Everything else is like the MLB or NFL picking wild card teams based on arbitrary rankings. Wild cards are stupid blatant money grabs anyway. 130 teams. Ain't no room for wildcards.
Whole thing is a joke. Always has been. I'm fine going back to letting the sports writers pick the mythical winner. Long term the national title is bad for college football. Especially with this kind of nonsense.