Ohio State, a 21 pt home favorite, loses to an unranked team and gets rewarded with a 6 seed home playoff game???? Meanwhile we beat the #12 team on the road and only move up 1 spot.
So 2 loss Ohio St can lose at home to an UNRANKED team and still gets to host a playoff game??
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This committee lost all credibility with this nonsense. Im ok w us not making it, yeah we got robbed vs LSU, but head to head we lost to Bama and Ole Miss it happened
But to beat #12 on the road and only move up 1, and Ohio State loses at home to an unranked and gets a home game???? AND Miami is ahead of us???
We should have taken 8 overtimes to beat GT at home so we could move up 2 spots.
Not much of the entire ranking makes sense.
All the polls have Oregon #1 and act like they're some sort of juggernaut. Oregon beat OSU by 1 when OSU didn't stop the clock to kick the game-winning filed goal - so, it realistically could have gone either way. They squeaked by Boise St by 3.
Then OSU loses to an average Michigan team - so, how good are they really?
Oregon has beaten 2 ranked teams (including that 1 point escape against OSU).
OSU beat 2 ranked teams (one being a suspect Indiana team) and lost to 1 ranked and 1 unranked (and average) team.
Penn St has beaten 1 ranked team and lost to 1 ranked team (OSU) and scraped by some average teams (Minn by 1 point a week ago).
Indiana has beaten ZERO ranked teams and lost to 1 ranked team (which means they lost to the only ranked team they played). They also struggled with a very average team (Mich, who beat OSU). They got 11 wins against mostly tomato cans. They have beaten 1 team with a winning record (Mich, 7-5) and barely did that, 20-15 (40 rushing yards). The rest of their opponents have a combined record of 44-76 (0.366). Impressive?
Texas stomped Mich... who beat OSU... and Texas was stomped by UGA... and OSU is right behind UGA. Makes sense, right?
Since these are the 4 teams the "committee" has "locked in" to the CFP, one has to ask why they value them so highly, since they COLLECTIVELY have ZERO quality wins outside of playing each other - seems like an intramural league or intrasquad scrimmage - how can you tell how good they really are? Where is the baseline to measure all of them?
So, I ask, where is the undisputed greatness is this group? Why do they "deserve" to have 4 spots reserved for them?
I heard one of the talking heads remarking how the SEC doesn't have many wins against Power 4 teams outside of the SEC... but they didn't throw up any figures to compare this claim against other conferences (or how many games they played against those teams). Once again, they cherry-pick and present their opinions with out-of-context info.
Keep reminding yourselves - this is a made-for-TV product, nothing more. Don't try to use logic to determine the "12 best", use the formula that applies here - "Follow the money".
All the polls have Oregon #1 and act like they're some sort of juggernaut. Oregon beat OSU by 1 when OSU didn't stop the clock to kick the game-winning filed goal - so, it realistically could have gone either way. They squeaked by Boise St by 3.
Then OSU loses to an average Michigan team - so, how good are they really?
Oregon has beaten 2 ranked teams (including that 1 point escape against OSU).
OSU beat 2 ranked teams (one being a suspect Indiana team) and lost to 1 ranked and 1 unranked (and average) team.
Penn St has beaten 1 ranked team and lost to 1 ranked team (OSU) and scraped by some average teams (Minn by 1 point a week ago).
Indiana has beaten ZERO ranked teams and lost to 1 ranked team (which means they lost to the only ranked team they played). They also struggled with a very average team (Mich, who beat OSU). They got 11 wins against mostly tomato cans. They have beaten 1 team with a winning record (Mich, 7-5) and barely did that, 20-15 (40 rushing yards). The rest of their opponents have a combined record of 44-76 (0.366). Impressive?
Texas stomped Mich... who beat OSU... and Texas was stomped by UGA... and OSU is right behind UGA. Makes sense, right?
Since these are the 4 teams the "committee" has "locked in" to the CFP, one has to ask why they value them so highly, since they COLLECTIVELY have ZERO quality wins outside of playing each other - seems like an intramural league or intrasquad scrimmage - how can you tell how good they really are? Where is the baseline to measure all of them?
So, I ask, where is the undisputed greatness is this group? Why do they "deserve" to have 4 spots reserved for them?
I heard one of the talking heads remarking how the SEC doesn't have many wins against Power 4 teams outside of the SEC... but they didn't throw up any figures to compare this claim against other conferences (or how many games they played against those teams). Once again, they cherry-pick and present their opinions with out-of-context info.
Keep reminding yourselves - this is a made-for-TV product, nothing more. Don't try to use logic to determine the "12 best", use the formula that applies here - "Follow the money".
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