Part of the problem is that when they were concocting the rules for this shit and came up with the 5 highest rated conference champion autobid rule there were....5 "Power" conferences
Hasn't that premise ALWAYS been true. There have always been white males on the "losing side" of things. We still probably had a better chance to win starting out than others did.
I do agree it's hard for most to take the premise of white privilege on faith if you can't point to a real, concrete example of it in your life. That doesn't mean it didn't exist for you, though.
Agree, but the only real solution is to tell anybody not in the P4 to fuck off unless you have a team ranked in the top 12(and probably Notre Dame that they ahem need to join one of those P4 conferences). They won't, though and I suspect that will eventually lead to the SEC and B1G telling them all to fuck off and going and doing their own NFL style thing.
They did rectify that rule after last year. Otherwise Tulane would have had a bye this year. Boise State got the bye last year as they were the 3rd highest rated conference champion (even higher than ASU). We were rated 3rd but got bumped down to 5 seed by Boise and ASU.
This year top 4 rated teams overall get the bye regardless of conference champion status.
They would have to eliminate the conference champion rule. I think most here miss that all the committee does is rank the teams and then the rules the CFP Managers put in place and approve then sorts the rankings into the rules to give us the bracket. So yeah there was a comment about sorting by losses, and the committee could do better with that in their rankings, BUT even if they did that, Tulane probably still here getting their ass whipped by somebody because that's the rules (which sort the 5 highest rated conference champions into autobid spots).
All the committee could have done to avoid JMU is rank Duke higher than them and then Duke and Tulane are in the playoffs.
JMU took an autobid spot as the 5th highest rated conference champion you fucking drunk. Say Virginia wins then they are in, JMU is out and guess what it STILL comes down to Miami or Notre Dame for the 7th at large spot.
I realize they changed it up a bit this year but you do realize the first round last year gave us all four semi-finalists?
I realize they changed it up a bit this year but you do realize the first round last year gave us all four semi-finalists?