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Back in 2014, in the midst of an uneasy path toward the inaugural College Football Playoff — and eventually to the National Championship game — the University of Oregon won 12 football games. In one of those, the Ducks surrendered 40 points to Cal; in another, they gave up 31 to Washington State and in another, they allowed 30 points to UCLA. In the end, Oregon finished 89th in the country in total defense and 31st in scoring defense. Why am I bringing this up now? It’s because if you haven’t had your fill of real-world hypocrisy, you can always turn toward college football and to a Playoff committee that regularly relies on conjured logic and groupthink to confirm its own ingrained views. In 2018, the head of that Playoff committee is Rob Mullens, who was (and still is) the athletic director at the University of Oregon. The other night, asked about why an undefeated UCF team had not budged from its No. 12 ranking despite defeating a pretty good Temple team on the road by a score of 52-40, Mullens chalked it
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