(12-08-2020 02:17 PM)NothingButKnight Wrote:  Really goes to show how important OOC games and sample sizes are to the computer systems. Usually CM is pretty damn close to the AP poll by the end of the year, this year it’s bizarrely off.

Well, looking at the AP and CM national champions of the past 10 years:

Year ............ AP ............... CM

2010.......... Auburn ........... Auburn
2011 ......... Alabama ......... OK State*
2012 ......... Alabama ......... Notre Dame*
2013 ......... FSU ................ FSU
2014 ......... OSU ............... OSU
2015 ......... Alabama ......... Alabama
2016 ......... Clemson ......... Alabama*
2017 ......... Alabama ......... UCF*
2018 ......... Clemson ......... Clemson
2019 ......... LSU ................ LSU

That's four differences in ten years, which to me seems like a lot. Especially when *none* of the other "NCAA major selectors" chose the CM team as champion. All of the other major selectors, whether human poll (coaches) or computers, agreed with the AP in those four years where the AP and CM disagree. So that makes CM a real outlier.