Written by Bart Doan at Bloguin
We’ve probably all been in a situation where we see or know someone who has a point they’re trying to get across, but they go to absurd levels to continue driving that point home.
The CFB Playoff committee rankings, version 2.0 came out last night, and while it’s been said many times in this spot that the ranking shows are nothing but red meat for a starved hot take public, it’s clear that within those hot takes are mild truths the committee believes.
One of those seems to be that “just because you’re unbeaten or the defending champ, it doesn’t mean jack to us, and we will go to the level of grading you differently to make such a point.”
Ohio State was knocked down a notch to number three, which in the grand scheme of things really doesn’t matter. What matters is that after one year and now into year two of this experiment, you can start seeing this logic as a trend rather than an abnormality based on the situation.
Florida State was the unbeaten defending champ last year, never really getting into those top two spots because they were “just winning” rather than doing it by someone’s subjective definition of “winning impressively.”
While I don’t personally share the same logic, many college football fans and analysts probably agree with the logic of holding a defending champ to a higher standard than simply giving them credit for what they’re doing this year but not dismissing totally what they did last year.
I can hear you out on that.
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