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Any live coverage of B12 media days?
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<blockquote data-quote="Zubaz" data-source="post: 2431083" data-attributes="member: 3528"><p>Didn't even make it out of page 1 before a 2014 debate started. Tremendous. </p><p></p><p>For the record, I do absolutely believe that our conference commissioner isn't paying attention and made a mistake. He heard "the 13th data point cost you", which it did, and concluded "the 13th data point is the most important thing", which is clearly not true.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It seems pretty obvious what the committee's standards have been, and they've been pretty consistent:</p><p>-P5 only. G5 has no real path to the playoffs unless the stars align.</p><p>-Wins and Losses matter more than anything else. 1 loss > 2 loss.</p><p>-SOS matters, and good wins outrank bad losses. More than anything, this is what killed us and Baylor in 2014, our SOS stunk compared to Ohio State's despite having a "better" loss. </p><p>-In the event of a tie, 12-1 > 11-1</p><p>-In the event of a tie, an outright conference title > split conference title.</p><p>-The preceding two points do not come in to play unless there is a tie, so 11-1 without a conference title > 11-2 with a conference title, by virtue of point #2.</p><p></p><p></p><p>This is silly.</p><p></p><p>1) Comparing OU's 1-loss in 2015 to TCU and Baylor in 2014 is faulty, because they weren't the same decision. OU wasn't vying for a spot with the other teams from 2014, and had they been in the same boat as us the odds are they'd have been left out as well. In 2015, Pac-12 champion Stanford had 2 losses, making the decision between 1-loss OU and 2-loss Stanford pretty easy and not necessitating the introduction of the tiebreakers used in 2014. Apples and Oranges. </p><p></p><p>2) B1G champion Penn State got left out in favor of Washington, yet we're supposed to believe that blue-blood bias trumps all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zubaz, post: 2431083, member: 3528"] Didn't even make it out of page 1 before a 2014 debate started. Tremendous. For the record, I do absolutely believe that our conference commissioner isn't paying attention and made a mistake. He heard "the 13th data point cost you", which it did, and concluded "the 13th data point is the most important thing", which is clearly not true. It seems pretty obvious what the committee's standards have been, and they've been pretty consistent: -P5 only. G5 has no real path to the playoffs unless the stars align. -Wins and Losses matter more than anything else. 1 loss > 2 loss. -SOS matters, and good wins outrank bad losses. More than anything, this is what killed us and Baylor in 2014, our SOS stunk compared to Ohio State's despite having a "better" loss. -In the event of a tie, 12-1 > 11-1 -In the event of a tie, an outright conference title > split conference title. -The preceding two points do not come in to play unless there is a tie, so 11-1 without a conference title > 11-2 with a conference title, by virtue of point #2. This is silly. 1) Comparing OU's 1-loss in 2015 to TCU and Baylor in 2014 is faulty, because they weren't the same decision. OU wasn't vying for a spot with the other teams from 2014, and had they been in the same boat as us the odds are they'd have been left out as well. In 2015, Pac-12 champion Stanford had 2 losses, making the decision between 1-loss OU and 2-loss Stanford pretty easy and not necessitating the introduction of the tiebreakers used in 2014. Apples and Oranges. 2) B1G champion Penn State got left out in favor of Washington, yet we're supposed to believe that blue-blood bias trumps all. [/QUOTE]
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