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used as a supplement for a human poll as well. In no way is the CM used to determine a consensus champion in any reasonable sense of the word consensus now or even during the BCS system. In the same way one dissenting member of congress doesn't equate a lack of general consensus, the same applies here as well. The CM is also notoriously inaccurate and unintuitive. For instance, last year
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As a side note, vandalism on this page has been heavy since
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The Colley Matrix (CM) is not a major selector in and of itself. It WAS a constituent of dozens of computer matrices that were aggregated to form a single "major selector" for INCLUSION into the final game in the now defunct BCS system format. And, even under that system, the computer aggregate was
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Consensus, as it is defined, refers to "general agreement". This generally means that a team must be selected by all three major selectors who report polls at the end of the season. These are the AP poll, the Amway
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I agree. But multiple changing IP addresses for persistent edits without sufficient communications might have got the opinions mistaken, given that "CFP national runner-up game vs. Georgia" had existed for quite some time before the CFP NCG. Apologize if mistakes were made. I recognized UCF's CM
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If the Colley Matrix has UCF #1, and there are voters in the AP that have voted UCF#1... and UCF makes a claim to the title. I don't see how
Alabama can claim to be the "Consensus" National Championship. Why is that not a compromise and call Alabama the National Champions ( AP, Coaches Poll, NFF
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listed multiple times in this thread and read up on what is defined as a champion selected by a consensus selector. If indeed, you are doing this in an attempt to legitimize UCF's self-proclaimed "national championship" then you are wasting your time. To list
Alabama as anything less than the
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Consensus does not mean "unanimous", it means "general agreement". Alabama won the "general consensus" of the AP poll, that means they are "CONSENSUS" National Champions. They also won the "Consensus" of the Coaches Poll and the NFF. Please see page 120 of this NCAA record book
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consensus national championship would diminish the reliability and neutrality of this article and constant attempts to vandalize this article are not going top change that fact.
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