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ESPN Article Questioning ISU's CFP

Someone posted it earlier but the people complaining about us are frankly being purposefully obtuse.

We have beaten quality teams. Yeah we have two bad losses but they are still to top 25 teams. Compare that to Cincinnati who I think someone said hasn’t even played a top 25 team.
 
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RonBurgundy said:
No shocker that ESPN is not supportive of ISU.

www.espn.com

Should Iowa State really be on the fringes of the College Football Playoff race?

Iowa State climbed to No. 7 in this week's College Football Playoff rankings. This has been one of the Cyclones' best seasons, but does it merit CFP respect? Our Allstate Playoff Predictor takes a look.
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If it were OU or Texas in this position there would not be an article. This bothers me so much I have to write more. The article makes the assumption that conference championships do not matter. It ignores that fact that a team with only 5 wins is ranked #4. It ignores the fact the the AP and Coaches poll are solely based on perception and not reality. It ignores the fact that the Big Ten changed it's rules to allow a team ranked 4th with only 5 wins into a championship game. How about instead of losses we focus on wins. How many wins does tOSU have versus ISU, 5 versus 8. How many wins over winning teams, 1 versus 5. No doubt tOSU has a good team, but they absolutely have a worse resume than Iowa State. The article is a damm joke, that uses the same media bias which ranks tOSU 4th in the first place.
 
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RonBurgundy said:
No shocker that ESPN is not supportive of ISU.

www.espn.com

Should Iowa State really be on the fringes of the College Football Playoff race?

Iowa State climbed to No. 7 in this week's College Football Playoff rankings. This has been one of the Cyclones' best seasons, but does it merit CFP respect? Our Allstate Playoff Predictor takes a look.
www.espn.com www.espn.com
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Lol. He is using FPI and our 2 losses to support his argument.
- Wisconsin (2-2) is currently #4 in FPI.
- OU who has 2 losses (who we beat head to head and in the conference standings) is at #5.
- Texas, with 3 losses, is at #9.

Maybe the problem isn't ISU's #7 ranking, but rather that FPI sucks ass as a metric?
 
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Cyched said:
Sports media: "The CFP needs to prove it's not biased"

Also sports media: "Why is this non-blue blood school deserving of the playoff?"
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That is my favorite part of all of this. All of the media and fans bellyaching about ISU being ranked 7th are holding us up as the poster boy for some big-conference bias from the committee. Yes, Iowa State is getting preferential treatment from noted Big 12 enthusiasts, the College Football Playoff committee. What an odd year.

And yes, as a poster just mentioned, if OU was #7, there would be no question from the media that they belong.
 
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This article does include some different metrics to support their narrative but I find it interesting that they don't have much on the committee's reasoning. You'd think that ESPN would have enough journalistic chops to at least have asked the committee- "Why do you guys like Iowa State at #7?". Beyond Barta Tuesday's comments, which they obviously don't agree with.
 
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superiorcyclone said:
If it were OU or Texas in this position there would not be an article.
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ESPN prime directive is to protect the bluebloods and discredit anyone new to the party.

That said Louisiana cost us a playoff birth and I'm ok with it. This said it's not like we don't belong. Who the **** has Cincinnati beat? Win the CCG and we will be sitting in a really good spot preseason. Not to mention we'll have a fake top 20 team coming to Ames OOC in September.
 
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SolarGarlic said:
That is my favorite part of all of this. All of the media and fans bellyaching about ISU being ranked 7th are holding us up as the poster boy for some big-conference bias from the committee. Yes, Iowa State is getting preferential treatment from noted Big 12 enthusiasts, the College Football Playoff committee. What an odd year.

And yes, as a poster just mentioned, if OU was #7, there would be no question from the media that they belong.
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Yep, if a 2 loss Oklahoma team was #7, they'd be overanalyzing the possibilities of how they could get the #4 spot.
 
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Neptune78 said:
This article does include some different metrics to support their narrative but I find it interesting that they don't have much on the committee's reasoning.
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You're correct, and to be fair, it does state that the predictor is "built off what has correlated well with the committee's decisions before." So it's designed to adapt previous committee results into an algorithm of some sort. Apparently, this year's committee sees things differently, in some fashion.

Maybe the committee got it "wrong" several other times, who knows?
 
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An inside look at College FPI

ESPN's Sports Analytics Team provides all the info you need to know about what goes into the College Football Power Index ahead of the 2016 season.
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"It is important to note what FPI is not -- FPI is not a playoff predictor, and it is not designed to identify the four teams most deserving of making the College Football Playoff."

"In the preseason, these components are made up entirely of data from previous seasons, such as returning starters, past performance, recruiting rankings and coaching tenure (more on the preseason component below). That information allows FPI to make predictions (and make determinations on the strength of a team’s opponents) beginning in Week 1, and then it declines in weight as the season progresses. It is important to note that prior seasons’ information never completely disappears, because it has been proved to help with prediction accuracy even at the end of a season. Vegas similarly includes priors when setting its lines."
 
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