00:00Chris, help me out on the metric on what the committee looks at when it comes to picking these teams.
00:06Last week, it was all over the board.
00:07I couldn't tell what it was.
00:09I mean, strength of schedule, you know, one loss, who you lost to.
00:14I get that.
00:15I mean, but is there a metric that they're going by?
00:19It just seems that it's kind of chaotic and really loose.
00:23I think the metric that people should look at, and this is something going back to my days at ESPN
00:29that we like to talk about, was that strength of record metric, which is kind of what you would do,
00:35what you achieve against the schedule you have in front of you.
00:38So it kind of tries to balance out how nine and three can be better than 10 and two and
00:45things like that based on the strength of schedule, location of the game, and results in all of those metrics.
00:51So strength of record is probably the biggest one, but you saw the committee did value head-to-head a
00:58lot of times in the first ranking.
01:00In some cases, they followed strength of schedule in some areas as well, but you're right.
01:06It really was all over the place because people got wound up about Tennessee not being ranked ahead of Alabama,
01:13but really they had like Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, like that trio, like kind of,
01:19you can't really go head-to-head-to-head in that fashion because there's three teams involved.
01:23But the one team that really, but at the same time, Ohio State was ranked by eight spots ahead of
01:27USC, and the USC had just beaten them by double digits.
01:30So like people don't bring that up.
01:31People just like to piss and moan about the SEC because they hate the SEC and don't want the SEC
01:35to get all these teams in the playoff.
01:37But the Indiana ranking was the one that really was curious to me because you talked about we don't know
01:42what they're looking at.
01:43But if you, okay, you're supposed to look at strength of schedule, you think, okay, Indiana's strength of schedule isn't
01:49very good,
01:49and they didn't play anybody in the non-conference.
01:51Okay, well, let's look at big wins.
01:53Well, Indiana didn't have a big win.
01:55They beat nobody.
01:56Okay, well, let's use a football judgment and look at Indiana.
01:59You've seen Indiana play the last month.
02:01They needed a 60-yard miracle field goal to go to overtime against Minnesota at home.
02:05They needed, they went to overtime in a game they probably should have lost against Michigan, and Michigan is terrible.
02:10You needed a fourth-quarter comeback against Nebraska, who hasn't won in over a month.
02:15You beat Ohio State on a late call.
02:19You lost to Ohio State, rather.
02:21Like, I don't know.
02:23Offensively, they're not very good right now.
02:25So, like, that was a baffling ranking.
02:27But, again, it's all correctable, and we'll see ultimately what happens tonight.
