Joel Klatt proposes a combination of committees and computer-based rankings to fix 'flawed' CFP system
At this point, it seems clear to a number of college football fans that the original plan for the College Football Playoff is not quite good enough.
When news of the CFP system broke, it seemed like a good idea. Fans were fed up with an era dominated by SEC football and the computer-based rankings of the BCS. However, hindsight has demonstrated a bit of worth in those computer systems, along with the inherent bias of using humans to rate teams.
During a Friday segment for FOX College Football, Joel Klatt proposed an idea to fix the current model. He was responding to a comment from a fan on Twitter who posed the idea that maybe the BCS rankings were a better way to establish the best teams in the country.
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While Klatt admitted there was some worth to the BCS model, he proposed a more comprehensive way to integrate the two systems. Klatt would rather use multiple human committees and a combination of computer polls to rank teams:
“I don’t totally disagree with you…the BCS had the right model in terms of number of variables, cause we included computer polls and human polls,” explained Klatt. “Now, were the human polls good? No, because they started in the preseason. You know how I feel about preseason polls.
“I think a combination of the two. If we had three committees and a computer – or two sets of computers – that gave us a composite and we averaged the three – or five – rankings out, I think the Playoff Committees would be even better than the BCS. But there’s no doubt one Committee of 13 people with recusals is a flawed system from the start.”
You can check out all of Klatt’s comments, including his responses to two other Tweets, in the clip from FOX CFB:
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