Bill Hancock has made a career out of saying dubious things that no one believes. Case in point, after spending years talking about how college football doesn’t need a playoff and how a playoff would be bad for the sport, he is now the executive director of the College Football Playoff.
On Thursday, Hancock spoke to reporters about the CFP’s spring meeting and, as always, trumpeted how amazing everything is going and nothing could possibly be better. Specifically, he cited a number regarding how popular the CFP selection committee is that he may have just pulled out of thin air.
https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1519737915810750465
“ESPN told CFP that the selection committee remains popular, he adds. Hancock says it’s something like a 76% approval rating from the public,” tweeted Nicole Auerbach.
If there’s anything that drums up controversy each year, it’s the decisions that the selection committee makes choices that often anger or annoy college football fans who don’t understand the logic behind their choices. Very rarely is there a season in which most college football fans would agree the committee “got it right,” so the mention here by Hancock garnered a lot of reactions from the college football world.
[citation needed] https://t.co/v8gs98RfRf
— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) April 28, 2022
"something like" https://t.co/O3LQC0cuxv
— Ben Kercheval (@BenKercheval) April 28, 2022
Oh baby, this is QUITE the line. Besides the fact 76% of the country doesn’t approve of literally anything together, this is the definition of when your employer wants you to self evaluate so you give yourself 5/5s on every question. https://t.co/1r46dcB6YX
— @vivamatadoresSBN (@CCCFFSN) April 28, 2022
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) April 28, 2022
i need someone in my life who is this willing to so blatantly lie to me about how well i'm doing at something https://t.co/lic4bfLZ6y
— deptona 500 (@depeterson61) April 28, 2022
Well, something like 73.6% of statistics are made up, so… https://t.co/yLakvHofjB
— Jake Hatch (Yawk) jakehatch.bsky.social (@JacobCHatch) April 28, 2022
I would be QUITE interested in how "public" and "approval" were defined in this research https://t.co/57BBnrNixb
— Billy Gomila (@BillyGomila) April 28, 2022
I really wanted to know the exact phrasing of this question when it was polled. https://t.co/CkjDkmrUOF
— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) April 28, 2022
OK who rigged this survey? https://t.co/cQXVsEJbck
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) April 28, 2022
Pretty much the only way that this number is true is if the survey consisted solely of people who root for Alabama, Georgia, and Ohio State.
