In addition, selections are supposed to be based on the current year only not anything from the past.
However, it appears that the Sunbelts 3-0 record against the Big 12 meant nothing.
It appears that Louisiana’s beat down of Iowa State in Ames also meant nothing.
A victory achieved much easier than what Oklahoma did to the Cyclones on a neutral field.
In a limited amount of out of conference games this year, this should have had a bearing. But obviously it did not. I’m not arguing that UC.should have been in the top four but they should have been at least 5th or 6th and certainly ahead of Oklahoma. A fair system.......I think not.

You got it.

Anyone have data of records of P5 @ G5 & P5 vs G5 on neutral field? When ~90% of the games are held at the P5's home field that skews the data.

Huh. Okay.

I'm not really sure what your argument is, to be honest. G5 conferences are consistently worse than P5 conferences head-to-head, but you feel that teams from those conferences should be assessed as if that's not the case?

I'm not suggesting it would look good. I do think it would look better. In my dream world the NCAA forces the P5 out of their home stadiums more often (same for college hoops). I don't expect a magical level playing field but certainly that change would mean more W's for the G5. Also, I realize it isn't happening, I said dream world.

My point is that the extremely biased committee members do not look objectively at undefeated G5 teams. They automatically assume that undefeated G5 teams are inferior to "P" conference champs and even some one- or two-loss "P" teams. Historical records between "P" conferences and G5 conferences shouldn't play a part; the committee should look at THIS YEAR's performance. But they don't because the vast majority of committee members are biased against all G5 teams. For example, O$U and Cincy had the same week off because of covid cancellations. O$U didn't drop in the CFP poll, but Cincy did. In fact, Cincy was passed by Iowa State, which had two losses including a home loss to Louisiana of the Sun Belt Conference. In the final rankings, two-loss Oklahoma jumped ahead of Cincy simply because Okla beat two-loss Iowa St for the B12 championship. (One of Okla's wins was vs 1AA Missouri St). Cincy also finished behind three-loss Florida, one of whose losses was at home to a very mediocre LSU team. Cincy might get downgraded for playing 1AA Austin Peay but Clemson isn't penalized for playing 1AA The Citadel. So long as the committee is overwhelmingly comprised of individuals who have direct or indirect ties to "P" schools, undefeated G5 schools will get shafted over and over again.

So the better team with more money should have to play away for some socialistic feelings you have? If we hosted OSU or WVU, Michigan, how much Green do you think you’d see in Peden?

For me as a G5 school, comes down to whether you're willing to play neutral site games or not. Going to Cleveland or Cincy ain't a sin, especially if it means having someone of a power brand that considers Ohio a recruiting base matter. If we played our cards right, could have schools wanting to recruit Ohio all day in the state, but again, that comes down to savvy leadership.

I understand the feeling that the rankings are rigged this year. IMO, sometimes we go overboard with head to head in the USA. If two teams are 11-1 and one has beaten the other it usually just means that the team that won the matchup lost to a lesser team that, in most cases, the team that lost defeated. Its a circular argument in that case. Tiebreakers have to choose something as a first step and this is as good as anything but in the USA we consider a situation like that definitive proof in ways that no other country does.

On the other hand, in a situation where there is no circular counterargument loss. like if I'm undefeated and beaten you, then I should almost always be ranked higher unless there are crazy differences in the rest of the resumes. This year Coastal Carolina>Louisiana>Iowa St. with nothing to counter that right now. You can argue that the Big XII schedule makes for one of those crazy differences in the rest of the resume. However, in the limited amount of non-conference data we have this year it isn't like the Big XII did much to prove that it was dramatically better than the Sunbelt and the difference in the committee's rankings were not small. At one point Louisiana was about #21 and ISU was about #7. This felt really rigged to me.

Having said that, WHAT THE HELL? How can you say "you got it"? Isn't the first step in being a decent human being altering your world view to fit the facts rather than just obstinately rejecting facts that conflict with your world view? Did you go to Ohio? If so I wonder how you benefited in any way from your time there. This seems like like most basic thing in education. It is a concept that a grade school dropout should have no trouble with let alone a college graduate.

But this is a pipe dream of a reporter that didn't have anything better to do with his time that day. Ain't going to happen, so I ain't going to worry about it one way or the other.