Committee chairman and Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel said BYU’s comeback wins over Oklahoma State and Utah, both teams with losing records, in recent weeks also played a part in the Cougars’ precipitous drop.

“It was just something the committee had been monitoring all along,” Manuel said. “Look, we give a lot of credit when teams win and so we don’t penalize teams for winning close … or winning too big. But we do value wins, and so that’s where we saw BYU.

“But given some of those games that they played and the close wins that they had, it just was an indicator that some of the teams that were below them in the rankings last week should move ahead of them is how the committee assessed it.”

What a joke of a statement by Manuel. We don’t penalize teams for winning close but BYU had some close wins against teams with losing records.

This whole thing hasn’t changed with 12 teams. And the B10 and SEC are going to rig the system to get their teams in.

They should just start their own league. I would love the NCAA to kick them out and then all the rest of the teams agree to never play them again.