In Your Opinion, What Are The Ingredients of an "Eye Test"?

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When teams have similar records, we hear the terminology "Eye Test" for selecting teams to the CFP.

Is there a priority order for an Eye Test?

1) Record?
2) Conference?
3) Strength of Schedule?
4) Winning Margins?

etc?
 
Red_Alert said:
When teams have similar records, we hear the terminology "Eye Test" for selecting teams to the CFP.

Is there a priority order for an Eye Test?

1) Record?
2) Conference?
3) Strength of Schedule?
4) Winning Margins?

etc?
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1,3,4,2
 
For me, it's mainly strength of schedule with a bit of winning margins thrown in.

Winning margins come in for me with mostly beating the teams they are ''supposed to beat'' the way they are supposed to beat them.

If a team is favored by 24 and they win by a touchdown, they may not be as strong as originally thought.

By the same token, if they're beating teams that should be able to beat them or at least play them close by double digits...that team may be better than originally thought or at least as good.
 
Whatever it is, I'm fairly certain doesn't Clemson doesn't pass it.
 
RubinRock said:
Big A&M guy, eh?
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I bring up cheerleaders and you bring up the bizarre anomaly of a group of dude cheerleaders.

It's time for you to sit down and have that talk with your parents, buddy. Don't worry. They'll still love you. Probably.
 
Record is obviously the first criteria.

After that for me it's scores playing out as expected or not. If a team consistently squeaks by teams I think they should dominate, then it's hard for me to justify a high ranking (Oklahoma this year for example).
 
SlinkyRedfoot said:
I bring up cheerleaders and you bring up the bizarre anomaly of a group of dude cheerleaders.

It's time for you to sit down and have that talk with your parents, buddy. Don't worry. They'll still love you. Probably.
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Jars of jizz. Socks of meat.

Things are starting to make more sense.
 
What fan base will get pissed off more if I rank the other team higher than them.

There is no other criteria.

:biggrin:
 
Skerpokes said:
Does the team end in "bama"? Then they deserve to get in.
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I'll use Georgia as an example...

Assuming neither loses prior to Dec 4th, if Georgia loses to Alabama in the SEC CCG, does Georgia pass the "Eye Test" to get two SEC teams into the CFP?

Clemson (4-3): Lost to Georgia, @ N.C. State (5-2), @ Pitt (6-1)
UAB (5-3): Lost to Georgia, Liberty (6-2), Rice (3-4)
South Carolina (4-4): Lost to Georgia, Kentucky (6-1), @ Tennessee (4-4), @ Texas A&M (6-2)
Vandy (2-6): Lost to Georgia, East Tennessee St (FCS), Stanford (3-4), Florida (4-3), South Carolina (4-4), Miss St (4-3)
Arkansas (5-3): Lost to Georgia, @ Ole Miss (6-1), Auburn (5-2)
Auburn (5-2): Lost to Georgia, @ Penn St (5-2)
Kentucky (6-1): Lost to Georgia

Remaining Schedule
Florida (4-3): Lost to Alabama (7-1), @ Kentucky (6-1), @ LSU (4-4)
Missouri (3-4): Lost @ Kentucky (6-1), @ Boston College (4-3), Tennessee (4-4), Texas A&M (6-2)
Tennessee (4-4): Lost to Pitt (6-1), @ Florida (4-3), Ole Miss (6-1), @ Alabama (7-1)
Charleston Southern: FCS
GA Tech (3-4): Lost to Northern Illinois (6-2), @ Clemson (4-3), Pitt (6-1), @ Virginia (6-2)

Other than Vandy's loss to an FCS team, Georgia's wins were over teams who's losses aren't 'bad losses'.
UAB lost to Rice (3-4), but even Rice doesn't have 'bad losses'... @ Arkansas, Houston, @ Texas, @ UTSA

If Bama beats Georgia in the CCG, it'll be hard for another 1 loss team to beat that eye test IMO.
 
EYE TEST things are like team speed, physicality, talent position athleticism, focus at big moments, team coordination.
All those things you list aren’t eye test… some (like SOS) maybe underscore or inform eye test, but things like RECORD don’t at all.
 
Strength of schedule is just another form of eye test.

EVERYTHING is subjective.
 
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