CFP rankings

[TJCoog]

@2002Coog

Speaking of UTEP. They have a huge showdown with Rice this weekend. Just found this tweet that literally made me LOL.

https://twitter.com/RedditCFB/status/1058064313154523136

Dimel has a shot at (I’m guessing) being the only coach to go winless in a season at two different FBS programs.

[TJCoog]

@2002Coog

@Manster54

If we win out we will end around top 10 imo

I don’t think there’s any chance we could rise that much in the next 5 weeks since our schedule doesn’t get much better other than possibly a showdown with UCF. Where I will disagree with you is it makes no sense in my mind to reward a team for so-called “quality losses”, especially when 2 of those losses were by double digits and the other one was to a terrible TCU team that lost to Kansas! How on earth are any of those considered “quality”? If ISU gets credit for losing to TCU, we should get credit for losing to Tech. Neither we nor ISU, nor anyone else should ever get credit for losing a game. That is terrible logic.

@Manster54

“Wisely, the committee looked past the Cyclones’ record to see what is one of the best teams in the country.”

This quote is the kicker for me. They can look past schedule results to somehow find that a 4-3 team with a loss to TCU is “one of the best teams in the country” but can’t see from our 7-1 record, video game offensive numbers and 2 players on the Heisman watch list that we are one of the 25 best teams in the country? Get outta here!

I don’t think ISU gets credit for losing to TCU. They got credit for beating Tech, West Virginia and winning at OK State.

[2002Coog]

@TJCoog

I don’t think ISU gets credit for losing to TCU.

The quote from the article lumped the 3 point loss to TCU in with double digit losses to Iowa and OU and called them all “quality losses.” Why mention “quality losses” if they aren’t getting credit for them? Now, I might agree that they aren’t getting points for these losses, but the voters somehow found a way to ignore 3 losses that can’t, in any conceivable way, be considered “quality.”

@Manster54

Iowa State has quality losses: by 10 points to both No. 16 Iowa and No. 7 Oklahoma joining a three-point loss to TCU.

[chojn1]

@Jayyram

Read between the lines. This analysis and reasoning isn’t a slap at U of H. It’s merely a slap at UCF and the AAC as a whole. There’s no way anyone among the committee can say with a straight face they ‘disrespect’ anything the Cougars have accomplished most of this decade. Let’s hope everyone else recognizes this…if not and you think it’s a grand conspiracy against UH, get over it and think again.[quote=“chojn1, post:14, topic:14785, full:true”]

averroes:

I don’t think this is a grand conspiracy against UH at all.

13 human beings in a locked room with no defined written rules will always have their inherent bias and agenda. They get to chose which data to look at and which data to ignore. They get to define how each piece of data is interpreted and which sets to apply to which scenario. Historically and currently, that bias is against the group of 5 and against Houston.

The AP poll and the coach poll are also collections of bias votes and can not be used as the barometer for the CFP poll.

The true standard for these polls is their ability to predict the winners in the paired teams. Last week the AP/Coach polls were wrong 11 times (worse than flipping coins). Let see how the CFP poll do against that this week.