Not to mention that Charles Darwin above pointed out that yes, the NCAA selection committee does release a Top 16 several weeks before selection Sunday each year.

You seriously want to just be surprised by the committee on the selection day? Their rank of SMU vs Alabama the week before was the main thing that kept Alabama out this year, it was too much to overcome. Imagine if they didn’t have any previous rankings, we all think Alabama is #13-15 and instead it turns out the committee has them #7. Nothing else to base it off of, we had no idea. Fun!

The part about basing it off the AP poll is not true either, although they were close this year. Be careful not to make reactionary changes based off one year.