Interesting to look at the coaches vs. the AP. Top 6 the same. Coaches have Oklahoma higher than Indiana. After that, teams more than 1 spot different:
+5 Oklahoma St.
+2 Georgia, Northwestern, USC, N. Carolina St.
-2 Coastal Carolina, BYU
-3 Tulsa
-4 Texas

Although 21-25 are close in the coaches. Tulsa only needs 20 points and Texas 13 to move from 25 and 24 to 21. And Oklahoma St. is 20 points from falling from 21 to #25.

Indiana (down 1), Oregon (down 1 from 25 to 26) and Texas are the only P5 schools to be rated lower in the coaches.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/st...redictable

Interesting. We get an ESPN article complaining.

"...This speaks to a system that was set up to favor teams in the Power 5 conferences (and Notre Dame, of course) to keep power and money for themselves. From the beginning, the same teams in Power 5 conferences have dominated the top four. That, in turn, has watered down who actually is capable of making a playoff run. Clemson, Alabama, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Oklahoma have combined to take 20 out of 28 possible spots since the playoff began in 2014.

If Clemson and Alabama end up meeting in the national championship, it would be their fifth playoff meeting in the past six years....

The playoff has also had a negative effect on the competitive balance across conferences. Teams like Alabama, Clemson and Ohio State only grow stronger the more often they make the playoff, because it boosts their national profile and ability to recruit, making them perennial national title contenders. (Those three finished in the top five in the recruiting rankings on National Signing Day last week.) It then becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that these are the predictable heavyweights when a new season rolls around...." <I think this is real when you look at who pops in and competes for the top players around the country--and if ESPN doesn't like it, they are partly culpable in boosting up these programs.>

These programs can’t be good forever. Eventually Saban and Dabo will fall off. It’s just been unfortunate for the rest of FBS from a parity standpoint. But those school’s rivals are going to get back to relevance at some point. It’s just been one of those cycles where most other schools are on the wrong end of it.

(12-20-2020 10:28 PM)RUScarlets Wrote:  These programs can’t be good forever. Eventually Saban and Dabo will fall off. It’s just been unfortunate for the rest of FBS from a parity standpoint. But those school’s rivals are going to get back to relevance at some point. It’s just been one of those cycles where most other schools are on the wrong end of it.

True, but, where bias props these programs up in some places, the prospects of transferability will aid in others. Places like Clemson and Alabama could be destination for high schoolers and now other teams’ rosters as well. While it may not always be the same two or three schools, it’s still this stratum that exists and is upheld by something not merited. And the structure’s desire to resist parity.