(01-23-2021 01:05 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-23-2021 08:41 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  I think the CFP selection show drove ratings down as well. The amount of spin and news-speak was enough to make George Orwell gasp. Listening to Gary Barta justify ranking Iowa State 12 spots over a Louisiana team that beat them by 17 head to head made a lot of people feel like they were watching the WWE, not legitimate athletics. If you followed social media or talked to any of your neighbors at all that turned a lot of people off.

Their spin IS often ridiculous but they were right about that one. https://www.masseyratings.com/cf/compare.htm
While computer ratings don't have a whole lot of data this year-Massey composite:

1. Alabama
2. Ohio St.
3. Clemson
4. Oklahoma
5. Texas A&M
6. Georgia
7. Notre Dame
8. Iowa St.
9. Cincinnati
10. BYU
11. Texas
12. Florida
13. Iowa
14. Northwestern
15. Oklahoma St.
16. Coastal Carolina
17. Indiana
18. ULL
19. USC
20. Ball St.
21. Miami FL
22. Buffalo
23. North Carolina
24. San Jose St.
25. TCU

It still doesn’t mean it did not sit well with people. Perhaps they should have explained objective measures like Massey, but they did not. All they did was get up there and tell people they thought ISU was better than Louisiana because the Cyclones looked good against 4-5 West Virginia. People can’t under what they witnessed with their own eyes. If it were a coupe spot difference maybe— but 12 spots?