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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Saltlmail on 2025-12-03 05:49:38+00:00.

1: This graph that excludes teams ranked 11th and 13th, was shown in the majority of ABC and ESPN broadcasts last weekend.

It is to be noted that Herbstreit during the Alabama-Auburn broadcast acknowledged that there was an obvious omission from this graph. “With that team being of course Texas” he pointed out.

There were two exceptions when ESPN didnt use this graph last weekend and used a different graph in its place.

2: ESPN2 Showed this maliciously deceptive graph during the BYU-UCF football game

For this graph ESPN decided for the “W-L vs RANKED OPP” stat to only include games against teams who were ranked at the time of play instead of games against currently CFP ranked opponents. ESPN didn’t convey this distinction to the audience so any casual viewer would probably think that BYU’s resume wasn’t Comparable to Oklahoma and Alabama.

Its worth noting that Notre Dame another team who would look bad when up against this specific deceptive stat wasnt included in this graph.

3: ESPN finally gets it right and shows an unbiased graphic during the Notre Dame-Stanford game which started in the 10:30 PM EST Night Slot

Look at how the statistics differ between this graph and what was shown during the BYU-UCF game.

4: BYU excluded from graph that was shown during the CFP ranking show this afternoon

Now Pitt and Tennessee have both fallen out of the CFP rankings so Oklahoma, Alabama, Notre Dame and Miami all lost a ranked win compared to what was shown saturday evening. Maybe thats why they went back to excluding BYU from the discussion as now BYU has a better or equal(Alabama) record against ranked opponents compared to the other bubble teams.