this kind of reminds me of 2008, and i wish that someone in the media back then had stood up and taken a stand in a move that would have changed the way we rank college sports teams forever.
Texas had played a gauntlet of a schedule, we hadn’t had a bye week, it had been two straight months of football, and FOUR straight weeks of top 10 opponents, when we lost, on the road, vs top 10 TTU, in the final seconds of the game. i wish that tony kornheiser, or kirk herbstreit, or colin cowherd had gone on tv and said, “i thought that Texas was the best team in the country before they lost to ttu, and i still think they’re the best team in America today.” would have made total sense, and could have changed how we do things. but here we are, in 2025, and the rules are still the same: you will be harshly punished for losing, and you will get nothing for having a brutal schedule.
it really is that simple. the powers that be have no interest in delving into the specifics of why team A might be better than team B, they just want to know how many losses each team has, even if one team has played 7 teams in the top 25 and is 5-2 while the other team is 0-1 vs the same top 25. doesn’t matter; only your record does. you want to play in big games in december and january? you’d better schedule cream puffs in september.