College Football Playoff's Bizarre Reasoning has Red Flags for Georgia Bulldogs, Michigan

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ATHENS - If you were wondering if the College Football Playoff Committee knows what its doing you can wonder no more. 

They don’t. 

Very little about Tuesday night’s rankings were coherent - and I mean that with all due respect. Folks will get fired up about the order of No. 1 through No. 3, but that’s missing the point. The issue was at No. 4. 

There is no world where Clemson is a better team than Michigan. None. And yet here we stand. Michigan, clearly one of the best four teams in the country is not in the top four of the first rankings. That’s so hard to understand. 

“But they don’t have any good wins, Dean.”

OK. Let’s say they don’t. Let’s say their best win is their win over No. 15 Penn State. That’s better than any of Clemson’s best wins, which start with No. 20 Syracuse, continues with No. 21 Wake Forest and ends with No. 22 NC State.

In the case of Clemson vs. Michigan, quality is not more important than quantity. 

Guess who else has Penn State as their best and only ranked win… Ohio State. That’s right - Ohio State’s best win is over No. 15 Penn State by 13 on Saturday. It was a good win to be sure… on the road. 

Georgia’s best win is over No. 8 Oregon - by 46… at home. 

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So in the case of Ohio State and Georgia we are using... the eye test? In this case it can’t possibly be quality over quantity - the quantity is the same. The quality is not, and yet, Ohio State is in front of Georgia. 

I don’t have a problem with Ohio State being over the Dawgs. I think their road win over Penn State was a very good win to be honest. I think if you wanted to put Ohio State at No. 1 it would have made plenty of sense. 

The issue here is that we’ve got different rules for different teams it seems. 

“Oh, this will all work itself out…”

Not necessarily. If you are undefeated it will… unless there are four undefeated conference champions, and we go through this entire crusade about the “most deserving teams” when it is obvious they are not one of the best four teams.

Tonight was a major red flag… sirens are going off. It seems clear to me that the folks making the decisions are not watching the games. Someone had to be ranked No. 1 and someone No. 3 between Ohio State, Tennessee and Georgia. 

Someone had to be ranked No. 4, and in no way should it have been Clemson. Clemson fans don’t think they should be No. 4. If their win on the last play against Wake Forest wasn’t warning enough that the Tigers are not in the same category as those surrounding them, then the win on the last play of the game at home against Syracuse was. 

If we are going to go by the resume test for Tennessee, Clemson and Michigan (which is fine), then we have to go with the resume test for Georgia and Ohio State, too. 

The banter from ESPN’s talking heads during the night showed their befuddlement about the selections. Before Georgia was announced at No. 3 Rece Davis said: “What can we learn from the committee at least as in the initial rankings by have them stacked up?”

“Oh……… Ok,” David Pollack reacted. “Dang.”

“Happiest guy in the world right now is Kirby Smart,” Davis said. 

I wouldn’t be happy. I would be concerned if I was Kirby. I would be concerned if I love college football. I am concerned. This committee’s reasoning has to be leveled out. It doesn’t make sense. 

“I think we look at eye test for some of these. Tennessee, one, is strength of record. Two, Ohio State that’s more eye test,” Pollack said. “Alabama being ahead of TCU - that’s more eye test. It is now of a mixed back between strength of record and eye test.”

Who is Bama’s best win? No. 24 Texas. I think Alabama should be where they are (or higher), but is it that Bama gets eye test standard? Because TCU has wins over No. 13 Kansas State and No. 18 Oklahoma State. 

So eye test for some; resume for others.

“Its just funny how they kind of make up the rules as they go along, and just flop things in,” ESPN’s Chris Fallica said.

It’s not funny. It’s alarming.

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