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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/SirMellencamp on 2023-12-11 19:16:32.
So I am home recovering from hyena surgery (shout out to Gen X) and been laid up in bed for three days. Doing fine by the way. A prevailing narrative on the r/CFB has been that ESPN instructed their on air personalities to push for Alabama to be in the playoff over FSU. By percentage more Fox analysts/color commentators (analysts from here out) said the committee got it right than ESPN analysts. The list was taken from Wikipedia:
ESPN:
Fox:
Some analysts opinions were easy to find. Some I could not find an opinion or the opinion was not 100% clear. Almost 100% are Google searches, a check of their Twitter account, a podcast or a radio show. This is ONLY opinions given after the championship games and it is ONLY a yes/no the committee got it right. If someone said/wrote “I could see how they put Alabama in but I also get FSUs argument” that would be indeterminate. Someone retweeting an argument on either side is going to be a “probable” unless they retweeted different arguments (I think there were two of these). I chose just the analysts since they were much more likely to give opinions and pretty safe to say they are a good representative sample. All opinions were taken AFTER the championship games were played since they were going by the same information the committee would have used. I did not go in determined to find an opinion from every one of these people but rather looked for an opinion from every one of them so could have missed some. There may be mistakes.
The Data:
Edit: Fine. Here is the hyena reference for you kids