The feelings of educated BYU football fans toward the College Football Playoff selection committee and its media overlord, ESPN, range somewhere between bewilderment, frustration, and outright anger.
But the frustration emanating from Provo shouldn't begin at the end of the season when the CFP and ESPN predictably collude to exclude the Cougars from the playoffs. The outrage should begin before the season even kicks off when the massively biased AP Preseason Poll is released.
Simply put, the AP Preseason Poll is biased against BYU like no other school.
Based on research from the X account Cougar Stats, no team has begun the season outside the AP Preseason Poll only to finished ranked at the end of the year more often than BYU.