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From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: College football playoffs
Message-ID: <495@gymble.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 10:39:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 10:39:01 1986
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In article <8852@ucla-cs.ARPA> lor@ucla-cs.UUCP (Edward Lor) writes:
>	I hope you know what you are talking about:
>a playoff among the few legitimate contenders cannot produce the best team,
>while the winner between #1 Penn St and non-#2 Oklahoma (don't
>forget, they lost the tie-breaker to Miami) is the best team.
>I just don't follow.
 
You're hopeless, Eddy!  I never said that a playoff CAN'T produce the best
team, I simply said it won't settle the controversy.  Teams left out of a
playoff will always complain.  You say that Air Force wouldn't have 
deserved being in a playoff based on regular season records.  But their
10-1 record was the same as Oklahoma's, Miami's, and Iowa's.  How do you
figure?  If you're going to bring strength of schedule into the argument,
then you can't just pick the four teams with the best records.  Under that
criterion, 11-0 Penn State didn't belong, 9-1-1 Michigan did.  And rating
schedule difficulty for the purpose of selecting four playoff teams is a
highly subjective exercise.  CONTROVERSY WILL ENSUE. 
 
And that is my final word on this matter.  Fire away.


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