This is Part One of a three-part series in which we analyze the College Football Playoff (CFP) selection process. In Part One, we address what we believe to be the CFP Selection Committee’s biggest challenge, which is a lack of data to compare teams in proper context. In Part Two, we identify data that we believe is instructive, and in Part Three, we propose an alternative framework to address the challenge.
Part One – The Data Problem
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