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A buddy of mine who used to work at Miami University (OH) spoke with his former colleague, David Sayler, the athletic director at Miami U and a current member of the CFP selection committee. He asked him about ND vs. Miami for the final rankings, and this is what he said:

"If ND and Miami are side-by-side in the rankings, he thinks Miami will surpass ND. But he said there is about half of the committee that firmly believes ND is the better team at this stage. The other half of the committee firmly believes that head-to-head needs to mean something."

Not really surprising. And this doesn't make me think they will actually flip Miami and ND if we do actually end up side-by-side. I'm still assuming they will do whatever it takes to keep ND ahead of us. But this came from someone in the room. Make of it what you like.
 
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I’m really not sure how you can take away that ND is even the better team right now when both teams just played Pitt two weeks apart. And Pitt OPENLY stated they didn’t have as much reason to care vs ND, it all was riding on GT/Miami. So with everything on the line Miami handled Pitt better than Notre Dame.
 
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gtrieger said:
A buddy of mine who used to work at Miami University (OH) spoke with his former colleague, David Sayler, the athletic director at Miami U and a current member of the CFP selection committee. He asked him about ND vs. Miami for the final rankings, and this is what he said:

"If ND and Miami are side-by-side in the rankings, he thinks Miami will surpass ND. But he said there is about half of the committee that firmly believes ND is the better team at this stage. The other half of the committee firmly believes that head-to-head needs to mean something."

Not really surprising. And this doesn't make me think they will actually flip Miami and ND if we do actually end up side-by-side. I'm still assuming they will do whatever it takes to keep ND ahead of us. But this came from someone in the room. Make of it what you like.
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I legit think most of the committee did not watch our last 4games.... the way they talk, they are stuck in SMU week....

and a point I haven't heard anyone mention, when they are feeling sorry for ND the first game of the season.... uhmmmm, I'm sorry, weren't they literally in the freaking National Championship the game before that first game??????? Miami, with a QB that hadn't played with the team until fall, and coming off a train wreck end of season loss in a crappy bowl game, somehow manhandled the team that went to the Championship....
 
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Cane44 said:
I legit think most of the committee did not watch our last 4games.... the way they talk, they are stuck in SMU week....

and a point I haven't heard anyone mention, when they are feeling sorry for ND the first game of the season.... uhmmmm, I'm sorry, weren't they literally in the freaking National Championship the game before that first game??????? Miami, with a QB that hadn't played with the team until fall, and coming off a train wreck end of season loss in a crappy bowl game, somehow manhandled the team that went to the Championship....
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… the committee doesn’t watch any of these ******* games lmao.
 
gtrieger said:
A buddy of mine who used to work at Miami University (OH) spoke with his former colleague, David Sayler, the athletic director at Miami U and a current member of the CFP selection committee. He asked him about ND vs. Miami for the final rankings, and this is what he said:

"If ND and Miami are side-by-side in the rankings, he thinks Miami will surpass ND. But he said there is about half of the committee that firmly believes ND is the better team at this stage. The other half of the committee firmly believes that head-to-head needs to mean something."

Not really surprising. And this doesn't make me think they will actually flip Miami and ND if we do actually end up side-by-side. I'm still assuming they will do whatever it takes to keep ND ahead of us. But this came from someone in the room. Make of it what you like.
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As him how many of them think OU or BYU is better than ND or Miami. That would really reveal how clueless they may well be.
 
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caneworld said:
Maybe Trump can make a call
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Chair has some authority to maintain credibility and steer members towards certain metrics for decision-making, but generally committees are created to obscure individual responsibility. If you have people voting in blocks, which may be the case, discussions can be difficult.
 
edookatedfool said:
If ND and Miami are side-by-side in the rankings, he thinks Miami will surpass ND
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This really dilutes H2H. The requirement is they MUST be side by side with no team in between in order to have H2H influence the rankings. Really deemphasizes H2H to have that requirement.

All this talk of "tiers" and "groupings" and now it is they MUST be side by side
 
Pearson704 said:
Chair has some authority to maintain credibility and steer members towards certain metrics for decision-making, but generally committees are created to obscure individual responsibility. If you have people voting in blocks, which may be the case, discussions can be difficult.
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As my old boss used to say: "Search all your parks in all your cities, you'll find no statues of committees."
 
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