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<blockquote data-quote="BrewingFrog" data-source="post: 3107797" data-attributes="member: 28"><p>You're the one forgetting that they need to fill a full slate of Bowl games, and they'd like those games to have some viewers, too. The other data point is that the Playoff is now entrenched, and they have evidently figured out that putting the Same Old Names in there wasn't getting the buzz they thought it would year after year. So, they have mixed it up a little. Put in a Sacrificial Lamb in Cincy to generate buzz they wouldn't ordinarily get.</p><p></p><p>It is as I have always maintained: Ratings are the sole concern. They couldn't care less what strength of schedule/head-to-head/eye-test/etc. are. Those are just talking points, and their paid talkers will go out and say anything they damned well tell them to say. Now the Talking Points can include: "See! The Committee is for real! They included a G5 program!" As I maintained years ago, and maintain now, this was decided via focus groups and programming studies. The Committee is a bunch of paid hacks that get an all-expenses paid weekend at a snazzy resort, flown in on little speedy jets, and sometime during the pool lounging and early cocktails hour, reads a note the ESPN flunky paying all the bills hands them. "Here's who we want, in the order we want them. More drinks?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrewingFrog, post: 3107797, member: 28"] You're the one forgetting that they need to fill a full slate of Bowl games, and they'd like those games to have some viewers, too. The other data point is that the Playoff is now entrenched, and they have evidently figured out that putting the Same Old Names in there wasn't getting the buzz they thought it would year after year. So, they have mixed it up a little. Put in a Sacrificial Lamb in Cincy to generate buzz they wouldn't ordinarily get. It is as I have always maintained: Ratings are the sole concern. They couldn't care less what strength of schedule/head-to-head/eye-test/etc. are. Those are just talking points, and their paid talkers will go out and say anything they damned well tell them to say. Now the Talking Points can include: "See! The Committee is for real! They included a G5 program!" As I maintained years ago, and maintain now, this was decided via focus groups and programming studies. The Committee is a bunch of paid hacks that get an all-expenses paid weekend at a snazzy resort, flown in on little speedy jets, and sometime during the pool lounging and early cocktails hour, reads a note the ESPN flunky paying all the bills hands them. "Here's who we want, in the order we want them. More drinks?" [/QUOTE]
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