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Message: [QUOTE="Dooley, post: 2927121, member: 2920"] Let's put on on our thinking caps... 1. the formula is a secret, protected by a sacred oath sworn in blood to keep it; 2. the formula uses some version of a WIN50% conference ranking as a foundation to create every team's schedule strength; 3. conferences are ranked/weighted (you can see each conference's "score" at the bottom of the sagarin page) But I digress because the hows and whys this one particular formula works is not important. What [I]is[/I] important is the how and why the [I]College Football Playoff Committee[/I] arrives at their "Final 4". If you can point me to the section in the CFP Committee Charter that states (something along the lines of) "we will exclusively use the sagarin rating system to select the 4 participants", I would appreciate it. For the record, I'm only arguing this particular formula's merits because you seem to swear allegiance to it to arrive at your conclusion that UCF hasn't beaten any quality "top 30" opponents to justify their omission from the Playoff. I don't blame you either - you are a fan of a Power Conference school that sits at the Money Club table. The networks and so-called "experts" regurgitate the same message that you are. For you, Florida State, the ACC, ESPN, and the upcoming ACC Network (ESPN), protecting those sacred 4 seats in the Playoff is vital to continue justifying the haves and the have-nots. If an AAC team like UCF, who hasn't lost in nearly 2 years, has beaten everyone on its schedule (including a win over the only team to have beaten Alabama in the same time period), takes one of those 4 seats, that is bad news for the P5 and the networks who have invested so much money in them. Can you imagine being one of the ESPN higher-ups who has to walk into Disney headquarters and explain to their Board that spending hundreds of millions of Disney dollars to differentiate certain conferences from the rest was entirely unnecessary? College football is a scam as it's currently constituted. But whatever, I'm about to gorge myself on a few pounds of turkey and mashed potatoes and watch some NFL...where champions are decided on the field and not by popularity contest polls. [/QUOTE]

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