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The College Football Playoff selection committee will incorporate a new data point in late November to help determine the strength of each conference based on the schedule strength of each team in its league.
ESPN reporter Heather Dinich announced the development on X, stating that the metric is designed to assist in separating teams within the same league that hold similar records.
The committee intends to use this new measure to evaluate how tough league opponents were for teams with comparable records in different conferences.
The addition of this metric addresses a long-standing criticism regarding the opacity of the committee's evaluation tools.
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