The only perspective is that college football fans have become brainwashed by strength of schedule. Somehow it was shoved into the conversation about a decade ago and now everybody fearfully clutches it as if nothing else matters, as if they would be going out of style if they didn't obsess over it.
Hilarious frailty.
Other sports moved beyond strength of schedule as an absolute decades and decades ago. Horse racing in fact veered sharply away from strength of schedule. Instead of evaluating via class only the trend became speed ratings and trip ratings that ignored company altogether. Nowadays none of the top handicappers would dare to argue that one method is decisive while ignoring the other.
Yet that's where we are in college football. Never ceases to amaze me. It's like other sports have advanced but this one merely found the most sloppy application of conventional wisdom available.
I guess Usain Bolt in his prime should have been excluded from the Olympics if he had raced against nothing but grade schoolers all year.
Holy Toledo. Yeah, the committee should place extreme weight on that game.
