I didn't like the old BCS average of computer rankings, but allowing the committee consider SP+, Sagarin, and/or FPI would be a big step forward. Even an RPI like number which gives a point per win of the teams you beat and subtracts a point for each lose of a team you lose to would be a big step up.

The way it is set up now, it encourages teams to play as easy a schedule as possible.

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At night, the ice weasels come.

If you're playing 9 conference games, and the conference basically has 4 playoff auto-qualifiers, where is the incentive to schedule up?

Sure, OSU hurt them.

They could also not have lost to 4-8 Florida, or looked like a zombie team against UK, etc. I'd be embarrassed to have my coach talking like this.

He's almost as big a yellowbelly as Little Lord Lincoln. How can players have respect for a coach who is constantly crying about shit that happened 6, 9, 12 months ago? I would be ashamed as a fan, and I can scarcely imagine how he or some of these other jokers would have reacted to ND's predicament of being in the CFP field for the duration until being unceremoniously booted at the end. Freeman doesn't get enough credit for manning up in response to that travesty. Particularly in our pathetic, accountability-deficient society today.