If you want the best team you need to do overall SOR, not non-conf SOR

Dec 31, 2024
8:55:15am

BYUCLA All-American

The 2 teams that had the best overall season at that point should be in. Why penalize a team that played a slightly weaker non-conference schedule but had a way harder conf schedule?

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A better conference tiebreaker would have been a metric for non-conference SOR.

royal_blue

12/31/24 8:09am

I could see going SOR overall but just non conf makes no sense in determining a conf title. Maybe by CFP rank?

byuTX

12/31/24 8:12am

It’s assuming all of the same tiebreakers that precede the current in-conference

royal_blue

12/31/24 8:15am

If conference wants to ensure their *top ranked two teams (like BYU and ASU this year) should have gone by CFP ranking

byuTX

12/31/24 8:18am

Has to be CFP ranking. Best chance at getting at least two in every time.

Coop

12/31/24 8:21am

CFP ranking is subjective. You really trust them to pick the best teams? They

royal_blue

12/31/24 8:25am

BYU was ranked lower than ISU by the committee, presumably because of the Big12s

royal_blue

12/31/24 8:24am

You want the committee dominated by P2 interests to have a say in the B12 champ?

d-coug

12/31/24 8:29am

How is this getting 👍s? ISU was ranked over BYU. Anyway, why would you want to

royal_blue

12/31/24 8:57am

The committee is also in charge of putting teams in the CFP. That’s their main task. Best way to get our two highest

byuTX

12/31/24 9:11am

But you understand the thing that you said was wrong? You said the best two

royal_blue

12/31/24 9:15am

Sorry. You’re right. Highest ranked teams is what I should have posted above. I’d go 1) head to head, 2) common

byuTX

12/31/24 9:17am

Why not let the schools choose?

Lvworkman

12/31/24 8:43am

That invites potential for corruption. Votes can be bought.

royal_blue

12/31/24 8:47am

If you want the best team you need to do overall SOR, not non-conf SOR

BYUCLA

12/31/24 8:55am

That is already handled by the preceding tiebreakers.

royal_blue

12/31/24 9:00am

You are proposing replacing conf SOR with non-conf SOR, no?

BYUCLA

12/31/24 9:02am

1.) The current tiebreaker is not conference SOR. It’s the record of opponents

royal_blue

12/31/24 9:12am

When all teams have the same record, SOS is the same as SOR.

BYUCLA

12/31/24 9:18am

I agree that it’s close even if it’s not exactly the same, so we can move on

royal_blue

12/31/24 9:51am

I like it as it is. Conference games should determine winners

Belboz

12/31/24 9:20am

If you like the current setup, imagine a scenario where BYU played Colorado with

royal_blue

12/31/24 9:34am

Hoping a team you scheduled 14 years ago is good enough to help your SOS so you can make the CCG is silly. Current tie

byuTX

12/31/24 9:40am

I think your suggestion that the CFP ranking should be used invalidates all

royal_blue

12/31/24 9:59am

Haha. Maybe the tiebreaker should be the conference picks two best teams equipped to win a playoff game. Which is what

byuTX

12/31/24 12:04pm

The way I feel about it has nothing to do with BYU. It makes sense as it is.

Belboz

12/31/24 1:20pm

Insert whatever team you want in place of BYU. It’s a hypothetical scenario.

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