The Justifications for the Rankings are Worse than the Rankings Themselves
I am sorry to do this to you all. But do you remember the weekly frustration of watching Jeff Long, after a weekly overproduced, excessively-dramatic CFB Playoff Rankings Reveal Show, bumble around and throw around nonsense when defending rankings? Specifically, do you remember his answers for why Baylor—who had the same record as and had already beaten TCU—was always ranked behind TCU? They seemingly changed every week, and did nothing but inflame any and all interested parties. One week it is “well TCU has more top 25 wins,” and the next it is “strength of non-conference schedule.