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The College Football Playoff announced that it will use an “enhanced” tool to further emphasize strength of schedule in its selection process, starting in 2025.
The new metric — titled record strength — will give further credit to how a team performs against its schedule. It will give extra credit for beating quality teams, while lessening the penalty for losses against tougher opponents. To the contrary, it will give less credit for beating lesser teams. Additionally, the existing strength of schedule metric has been adjusted to further err towards playing higher-level foes.
“All of these modifications will help the selection committee as they rank the top 25 teams,” CFP executive director Rich Clark said in a statement. “We feel these changes will help construct a postseason bracket that recognizes the best performances and teams on the field during the regular season, and I want to thank our veteran selection committee members and data analytics groups for helping implement these changes.”
The CFP created a data analytics panel to evaluate ranking metrics at the behest of the CFP Management Committee, which runs the playoff. Ultimately, they came back with this revamped analytic system.
Additionally, the CFP has adjusted its recusal rules to allow more discussion on teams. Members historically have been fully recused from any discussions involving teams from which any family member receives compensation. Now, there will be two levels of recusal — full recusal or partial recusal. When a committee member is partially recused, they will be able to be in the room for discussion of said teams, but will not be able to vote.
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Author : Shehan Jeyarajah
Publish date : 2025-08-20 16:14:00
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