CountryFrog
Active Member
One of the things that the committee needs to STOP considering immediately is injuries. Every single team has injuries that they have to deal with. It's part of the game just as much as missed calls by officials are part of the game. To my knowledge, they don't give teams a pass for a screw job by the officials (nor should they imo) and they shouldn't be trying to decipher which injuries are significant and which are not.what big win on the road does clemson have? Ncstate? Oklahoma has wins on the road against number 9 and number 13. Oklahoma’s loss is to a 4 loss team that the committee deemed the 21st best team in the country last week. Clemson lost to a 6 loss Syracuse team. Yes they were missing Bryant. However, In Oklahoma’s loss they were missing 3 of their 4 defensive lineman, a starting receiver, and one of their running backs.
The clemson, Miami, Oklahoma grouping makes absolutely no sense at all.
I remember hearing about Oregon's left tackle every freaking week in 2014 as an extenuating circumstance for why they lost a game, as if they were somehow the only team in America to have an injured offensive lineman.
They also don't give bonus points to teams who win despite injuries. So if we go to Lubbock and beat Tech with Robinson at QB then do we get to jump up even farther than we normally would have for overcoming that injury? Unlikely.
Sometimes injuries ruin a team's season. That's the way the game has always been. You have 85 guys on scholarship for a reason. The committee should not be able to factor injuries into their rankings as a justification for keeping a team highly ranked despite losing to a horrible team.