"Decline? You mean how the Deep State was slowly poisoning him because he was making America great again and the libtards who are trying to steal our country wanted to make sure transgender child molesters could prey on our children again?" - MAGA, probably
I could easily be wrong, but I think you can collect unemployment for about 6 months. So, maybe claims are down because people have been unemployed so long they no longer qualify?
I believe people get confused about what the Committee looks at in determining the rankings. I believe what you have posted is when they are trying to slot "comparable teams". In this situation, ND and Miami. Those two are comparable, so they default to what you posted above. That is the tiebreaker check list when teams are "comparable".
When ranking the teams, they look at whatever they feel like looking at and are swayed by they eye test whatever former coaches are on the Committee:
METRICS
There will not be one single metric to assist the committee. Rather, the committee will consider a wide variety of data and information.
"You're such a nasty reporter to act like the economy isn't the best in the history of the world. That's what a lot of people are saying. Just the other day, farmers made twelve billion dollars."
They just don't care. Lies, lies, and more lies, because so many Americans don't mind being lied to on a daily basis. If you point out the lies, you're fake news. If you're fake news, there's a decent chance your outlet will be sanctioned/financially harmed by the government. SCOTUS was the last line of defense and they're in on it all.
At first it's surprising how many incompetent and unqualified people have been placed in positions of power, but then you remember Trump is unqualified and incompetent and it makes perfect sense.
They did say that, fans just ignore it. Amazing how many posts in those game threads recognized the dogshit non-playoff team performance in those games and then somehow think the committee didn’t see the same thing.
I don’t decide it. The committee does. Get a member on the phone and ask them. It’s been the same all along. They have to answer questions week after week about ranking a sport that has hundreds of teams that don’t all play the same type of schedules. Every year they contradict themselves when the chair has to answer questions every week. But it’s been this way as long as I can recall: “team A was far and above Team B in our view, so we didn’t need to go to H2H, common opponents, etc, etc.”
That’s been the rules as long as I can recall. It’s just a lot of dumb fucks don’t bother to understand what they’re whining and bitching about. It’s in the stated criteria again this year. If teams are comparable, hear in what we look at to separate “comparable” teams.