The committee's chair said on ESPN they looked at several data points to make their rankings.

"If I hear the word data point one more time in my life, I may throw up," Beamer said. "There's a lot of data points that they apparently take into making their decisions, but I'm not sure strength of schedule is one of them because I don't know how you can go play Clemson last week in the biggest game in the history of the Carolina Clemson rivalry, win a game over a team that's ranked higher than you, and move up one spot and another team can beat a team that's not even going to a bowl game and move up two spots."