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Message: [QUOTE="arbitragegls, post: 757939, member: 302"] Well that was a good article by ESPN on those individuals that will determine the four playoff teams. The article is here: [url]http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9723389/college-football-playoff-selection-committee-expected-finalized-end-2013-season[/url] This is somewhat newsworthy but it has left out very important information even after providing insight to selection of team criteria. For example the article notes: "[B]The broad criteria for selection are set -- [/B]head-to-head matchups, common opponents,[B] conference championships... but the specific guidelines still have to be determined", Hancock said. Committee members will have "every bit of data on every team" at their disposal[/B]". What I am hearing in a hushed tone is that the above statement is missing an important element..SPECIFICS. For example: [B]The above does not weight the selection criteria.[/B]...is conference championship as important as common opponents...[B]define conference champion[/B]. ...in Big 12 it is the conference best record without a conference championship game ...in the SEC is it the winner of the championship game or can it be the other team that won its division... [B]THE WEIGHTING OF EACH CRITERIA MAY IN FACT call for rather significant changes to realignment. [/B]For example: [LIST] [*]if being a conference champion is simply team with best conference record than the Big 12 at 10 teams and/or no conference championship game is okay at 10 teams; [*]if a good amount of weight is given for winning a championship, how does any independent team get in...outside of being far and away the best team in the land...so Notre Dame and BYU and ARMY etc need to find a conference if they want to go to the NC. [/LIST] So as of today, very little is yet known as to the selection process. As some have thought, the realignment craze may not be over...and movement may happen in the next several months...standby: 1. Does Big 12 need to get to 12 teams in order to get a Conference Champion as defined by Conference Championship Game--which must have minimally 12 teams in conference per NCAA rules? 2. Does Notre Dame need to fully join a conference and is that the ACC? 3. Which team are going to be in play from one conference to another? Present stability can remain if [B]CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP is better defined and it is given less weight than other factors[/B]. For example, Conference Championship means winning your conference without a championship game--Big 12 is set as is...but how does Notre Dame and BYU get a pass. if they are in no conference...???? This is going to be of interest to us all. [B]The whisper,[/B] which was mentioned in previous thread is that Swofford has been quoted that if "NOTRE DAME joins a conference before 2027 it is obligated to contractually join the ACC"--now why did Swofford make that statement after the GOR was signed...[B]no real reason to have said that except...perhaps...a foretelling of what may take place based on simple weighting of "Conference Champion" being better defined. [/B] It is as if a story line is beginning to be written as a day time soap opera. So much up in the air yet the pieces to the pie keep falling almost in place...(more soon) It's Good to Be 'Cuse!! T[B]he Order of The 'Cuse Orange[/B].. [B][/B] [/QUOTE]

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