Alabama, Clemson, Washington, Penn State. Ohio State didn't win it's division nor its conference, neither did Michigan. If not Penn State then Oklahoma.
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Alabama, Clemson, Washington, Penn State. Ohio State didn't win it's division nor its conference, neither did Michigan. If not Penn State then Oklahoma.
You're nuts...
Bama vs Washington
Ohio state vs Clemson
I guess I'm nuts too because I don't think Ohio State should be in either.
If you can't even win your division and MAKE your conference championship game you in NO way deserve making the NATIONAL playoff. If Ohio State gets in the system needs to be scrapped. I could see taking a runner up, but Ohio State didn't even play for the BIG title.
The only way Ohio St. shouldn't be in is if being a conference champion is a prerequisite to being in the CFP. Right now its not, so they should be in by resume.
I suggest you guys get your complaints written up... Ohio state will be in
That Penn State is allowed to even compete in a football game is an absolute travesty. The football program should have been shut down as soon as all the facts were made public about what happened there and was tacitly condoned by that school.
Ohio state lost by 3 at penn state and beat 3 top 10 teams (Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Michigan)
Penn state did beat Ohio state and Wisconsin, but just to Pitt and 49-10 to Michigan.
Going to find out if the eye test or championships and head to head carry more weight.
In 2014, TCU was thought by most to be better than Baylor and was generally ranked ahead of them ... until mysteriously in the final rankings Baylor jumped ahead of them. Now because Baylor was 5 and TCU was 6 no one really paid attention to it, but that would have been the big story if they'd been 4 and 5.
The two takeaways are that only the final rankings matter and don't correlate to other rankings, and that head-to-head really matters, at least in the end.
This is why we need an 8 team playoff. 5 conference champs & 3 at large
Under this system though, if you an MSU fan, you should be rooting for Penn State to get in due to the precedent it sets.
I can see it now, MSU loses a non-conference game, beats Bama, MSU goes 10-2, Bama goes 11-1, MSU wins the SEC championship, & Bama goes to the playoff while MSU stays at home. See how that works?
I think Penn State should be in.
Remember two years ago when TCU/Baylor got left out and the committee said conference champs/head to head matters? Penn State should be in. Stand by the precedent you set.
Ideally they would set up some objective system where your record gets you into the playoffs, just like every professional sport.
Imagine cutting down to 4 power conferences and the "playoff" was Big 10 vs. Pac 16 in the Rose Bowl, SEC vs. ACC in whatever bowl, and winners play for the title. No Committee, no debates.
The committee set themselves up for this controversy by releasing a top 4 every week. Just release 1 playoff poll after championship Saturday and be done with it