CFP Selection Committee to Consider New Rule That Benefits One Conference Above All

If you believe there aren’t enough three-loss SEC teams in the College Football Playoff (CFP), today is a good day for you.

According to ESPN’s Heather Dinich, “The CFP selection committee will incorporate another data point in late November that helps determine the strength of each conference based on the schedule strength of each team in its league. It will help separate teams in the SAME LEAGUE with similar records based on the strength of their conference opponents. (Ex: PSU doesn’t play Oregon, Ohio State, or IU) It will also help separate teams with comparable records in different conferences based on how tough their league opponents were.”

As Dinich explains, “This is an ‘inside baseball’ type stat that won’t trump quality wins, schedule strength and record strength and what the committee sees on film. But it will put a number to answer the question: how tough is the daily grind in each league? It’s not even equal within them.”

The “daily grind” is definitely new.

But of course, that stat is already measured by strength of schedule, making it completely unnecessary. Now, under this new rule, the committee will factor in other teams’ strength of schedule to evaluate a particular…

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