Yeah, I think that is basically the "eye test" which in my opinion is a bullshit way of allowing voters to follow their bias as opposed to something that they can concrete justify with data. Everyone talks about making the regular season meaningful but when you basically allow this sort of thing you completely devalue the regular season.
There's definitely a lot of bias involved. It's to be expected when you have the human element so heavily involved.
A head scratcher for Big 12 fans is Jeff Long will throw darts at us for not being strong on both sides of the ball. OK State beats Tech 70-53 and understandably he questions their defense. But Florida beats Vanderbilt 9-7 and no doubts are thrown their way regarding them being strong on both sides of the ball.
So we've established in the committee's eyes that having a bad offense is acceptable, but having bad defense is unacceptable.
But I will say this.....I do like that the system kind of forces teams to actually schedule tougher competition and that an undefeated record doesn't guarantee you a spot in the playoffs. Otherwise you'd see a lot more teams following Baylor's example of scheduling the likes of World Incarnate University for all of their nonconference games.
I also like the fact that they didn't overreact to teams like Baylor beating bad teams 65-17. You crushed Lamar, Rice, Texas Tech and Kansas....good for you, but we aren't rewarding you with a higher ranking until you actually play a good opponent.