🏈 College Football Playoff Selection Committee Fact Sheet

[252BAMA]

[h=3]Mission[/h]The committee's task will be to select the best teams, rank the teams for inclusion in the playoff and selected other bowl games and, then assign the teams to sites.



"... selected other bowl games..." WTH is that!?

http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/story?id=9830895

 

[planomateo]

Sounds like conference commissioners were protecting those who don't make it into the group of 4.

Pairings for Non-Playoff Bowls

• All displaced conference champions and the highest ranked champion from a non-contract conference, as ranked by the committee, will participate in selected other bowl games and will be assigned to those games by the committee. If berths in the selected other bowl games remain available after those teams have been identified, the highest ranked other teams, as ranked by the committee, will fill those berths in rank order. (Note: A "displaced conference champion" is a champion of a contract-bowl conference that does not qualify for the playoff in a year when its contract bowl hosts a semifinal game.)
• The committee will strive to provide the most compelling matchups in the bowl games.
• There will be no limit on the number of teams that are allowed to participate from a conference.
• The committee will use geography as a consideration in the pairing of teams and assigning them to bowl sites, but not in the ranking of teams.
• The committee will attempt to avoid regular-season rematches when assigning teams to these non-playoff bowl games.
• To benefit fans and student-athletes, the committee will attempt to avoid assigning a particular team or group of teams to the same bowl game repeatedly.
• Conference championships will be a criteria to be considered when the committee assigns teams to bowls (i.e., if Dallas were a convenient site for two teams, preference would go to a conference champion.)

 

[TheChief]

[h=3]Recusal[/h]Committee members directly associated with any team under consideration during the selection process will recuse themselves from any deliberations associated with that team, and will not participate in any votes involving that team.

 

[TheChief]

Recusal

Committee members directly associated with any team under consideration during the selection process will recuse themselves from any deliberations associated with that team, and will not participate in any votes involving that team.

Sounds like if the Stanford trees get close, many on the committee will not be involved with the selection.

 

[TheChief]

Also, it looks like the committee is selecting bowl matchups as well. This appears, to me, an attempt to begin aligning a method of selecting for a full blown playoff. Otherwise, would the bowls not simply be private games looking after their own best interests. Now, those bowls have no say-so in who plays in their games.

 

[riz]

Gonna be a disaster.

 

[TerryP]

Sounds like conference commissioners were protecting those who don't make it into the group of 4.

Pairings for Non-Playoff Bowls

• All displaced conference champions and the highest ranked champion from a non-contract conference, as ranked by the committee, will participate in selected other bowl games and will be assigned to those games by the committee. If berths in the selected other bowl games remain available after those teams have been identified, the highest ranked other teams, as ranked by the committee, will fill those berths in rank order. (Note: A "displaced conference champion" is a champion of a contract-bowl conference that does not qualify for the playoff in a year when its contract bowl hosts a semifinal game.)
• The committee will strive to provide the most compelling matchups in the bowl games.
• There will be no limit on the number of teams that are allowed to participate from a conference.
• The committee will use geography as a consideration in the pairing of teams and assigning them to bowl sites, but not in the ranking of teams.
• The committee will attempt to avoid regular-season rematches when assigning teams to these non-playoff bowl games.
• To benefit fans and student-athletes, the committee will attempt to avoid assigning a particular team or group of teams to the same bowl game repeatedly.
• Conference championships will be a criteria to be considered when the committee assigns teams to bowls (i.e., if Dallas were a convenient site for two teams, preference would go to a conference champion.)

• Seems logical to me. If a conference champ gets left out of the final four teams they should get an invitation to one of the other sites.
• Hopefully this will avoid match-ups like the fiasco the Northern Illinois game was last year.
• As we wanted it to be.
• Makes perfect sense.
• Makes perfect sense.
• No change from now.
• Makes perfect sense.

 

[TerryP]

Also, it looks like the committee is selecting bowl matchups as well. This appears, to me, an attempt to begin aligning a method of selecting for a full blown playoff. Otherwise, would the bowls not simply be private games looking after their own best interests. Now, those bowls have no say-so in who plays in their games.

Yes, and no.

They are selecting teams for the other sites/bowl games that are part of the playoff sites. It's only four bowl games out of how many now?

Perhaps you knew this and I'm just stating the obvious...we won't have the committee selecting which teams would play in the Gator Bowl, or the Cap One, etc. (When and how much influence we see coming from the SEC offices is another story with those games...)

 

[TheChief]

Oh, okay, I see then. I thought they were selecting the top 25 teams and those bowls.