Monthly Archives March 2014

College Football Playoff is in Danger of Personal Bias

College Football Playoff is in Danger of Personal Bias Why Recusal is Impossible One of the biggest questions for the College Football Playoff Selection Committee to answer is how they intend to work around personal bias.  For the first time the national championship in college football is 100% dependent on the human element of the thirteen – member panel called the College Football Playoff Selection Committee. The committee chairman, Jeff Long who is also the standing Athletic Director at Arkansas, admits that the recusal process is one of the more difficult tasks at hand.  So what exactly do we mean
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College Football Playoff – Prestige or PR Nightmare?

College Football Playoff  – Prestige or PR Nightmare? What are They Doing? College Football Fans Need to Know For the first time the national championship game in college football will be decided by a college football playoff consisting of the top four teams and decided solely on the votes from the new thirteen-member committee.  The College Football Playoff Selection Committee that will rank the top twenty-five NCAA teams and determine the four teams to play in the College Football Playoff and six other bowl games. What this committee does and more importantly the results matters to millions of football fans,
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College Football Playoff Selection Process

College Football Playoff Selection Process Why Being First Isn’t Easy The kick-off of a new era in college football brings a new system through which the two teams that will play in the national championship game will be decided by a four-team playoff and the selection of those teams is 100% dependent on the analysis, opinions and biases of thirteen human beings serving on the inaugural College Football Playoff Selection Committee. (The committee members are listed below.) If you haven’t heard by now, a major pivot to the way college football crowns its national champion occurred last October when the BCS
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