GWINN: The CFP’s SEC Bias Doesn’t Just Apply to Alabama

The claim that the SEC has an outsized influence over the College Football Playoff (CFP) Selection Committee and that the committee is indeed biased toward that conference is no longer controversial.

In fact, even podcaster Josh Pate, often accused of being an SEC “homer,” has said that the SEC (along with the Big 10) has too much influence.

But those who think the evidence for this bias can only be found by looking at Alabama’s (absurdly high) ranking at #3 are mistaken. You can find evidence – and perhaps even better evidence – by looking at the SEC teams ranked at the back of the top 25.

Some will look at a three-loss Missouri sitting at 22 and think, no big deal. A three-loss team at 22? That’s where they should be. Who cares?

And they would be fine thinking that as long as they ignored the teams from other conferences with better records, who, for some reason, cannot get ranked at all.

Let’s look at the tale of the tape: Missouri’s best win of the season is a Week 5 curb-stomping of then-8th-ranked Florida. Their best out-of-conference win is a 17-point victory over archrival Kansas, which is at the…

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