The CFP Committee Chair Gave One Of The Worst Answers Of All-Time When Asked Who The Best Teams In College Football Are

This is Miss South Carolina in 2007 when asked about why Americans can't find the US on a map level of brain pudding. What an absolute word salad. Let's just recap because sometimes these things look better in print.

"How many teams does the committee deem unequivocally better than the rest?" 

"As we look at it, Rece, it was a really good weekend, right? What? Rivalry weekend, you get a little bit of everything as you got into that, but, you know, Georgia Tech's—er—Georgia's win over Georgia Tech sitting a lot of their offensive players. You know, Michigan with the big win over Ohio State. You know, Washington pulls one out in the Apple Cup. Florida State goes down to The Swamp. What a great season it's been so far."

Okay, cool, man. Thanks for the recap. So, who are the best teams? 

This right here perfectly encapsulates the issue that I have with the college football playoff committee. Their criteria is essentially that they have no criteria. They claim that there's some science to this, but there's not. It is based entirely on the eye test. It's very similar to the Heisman. Guys look at the numbers, and then they vote for the player that they think has put up the best statistics or played for the highest-profile team. You can't watch every single game, and you can't follow every single player. Why is Ohio State ranked ahead of Texas despite Texas having the most impressive win between the two teams? Because fuck it, that's why. 

In college basketball, it's different. You have RPI, strength of schedule, and all these different ways of evaluating which team is more deserving over another. You also have way more automatic bids, and you fill out a 68-team tournament as opposed to just a 4-team bracket. They rarely make mistakes in college basketball. I wouldn't have any problem with the current process in football, but I just feel like they're disingenuous about it—Criterias change year in and year out.

This gentleman's name is Boo Corrigan, not to be confused with what would happen if you tried to scare the lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins (I'll just let that one sit for a while). I'm guessing he's been on the show before. I don't go out of my way to watch the college football playoff show. I don't really need to. My team is undefeated. They're in pretty good standing. I had a good hearty chuckle listening to this dude try to verbal diarrhea his way through a very basic question. Word to the wise: sometimes it's okay to just say, "I don't know." there's one more week of football left. It'll be decided on the field. It wasn't like this was some "gotcha" question, either. It was pretty darn basic. The dude just fumbled the bag.