College Football Playoff adds metric to evaluate conference strength amid SEC scheduling concerns

Getty Images The College Football Playoff Selection Committee will add a new metric that aims to emphasize the strength of a conference record, according to ESPN. The new metric will help contextualize the power of a conference when comparing two similar teams. It will also say how tough a conference schedule was, even in regard to teams within the same conference. With the rise of megaconferences with at least 16 teams, teams’ scheduling strength can vary widely, creating large disparities in final records. Duke, for example, reached the ACC Championship Game after playing only one team ranked in the AP…