LSU head football coach, Brian Kelly feels strength of schedule should play a major role in determining who makes the College Football Playoff.
Alabama football is hopeful this will come to fruition in the next College Football Playoff ranking reveal on Tuesday. Where Alabama and Miami find themselves in the rankings will determine if either has a shot at making the playoff. The strength of schedule argument favors the Crimson Tide, and Kelly feels it should carry a lot of weight.
“I think I went on record earlier this season saying that this is where it’s going to be difficult this year because I don’t know that the walking orders of the committee are going to be quite right,” Kelly said on The Paul Finebaum show. “Because you’re going to have teams that are going to have tougher strength of schedules and have better football teams, and they may get left out. More wins doesn’t mean that you’re a better football team. I think basketball kind of went through this, and they figured out strength of schedule is really the best indicator. That’s why they use a RPI. That’s why they use that and rely on it heavily to make decisions on who’s in the tournament and who’s not in the tournament. We see that every year. We always talk about some of the non power teams winning 32 games or 28 games and not getting in. It’s because of the strength of schedule. I think that that’s going to be the case this year and there’s going to be a cry that will be real that some teams get left out because they didn’t have one extra win. And I think it’s wrong, and I think there’ll be an adjustment and I think that adjustment will take place next year.”
Tuesday’s rankings reveal is shaping up to be the most anticipated of the season.
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