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2017 College Football Playoffs (and Other Bowl Games)

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UrbanBuckeye said:
BTW, an observation they're sending to the B1G (or allowing themselves to put in 2 SEC teams).

They moved Mississippi State up 2... only 1 of 2 teams to climb that far. DESPITE struggling and nearly losing to Arkansas.

Michigan State was only bumped up 1.
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No way no how should SCUM be ranked behind LSU.

I don't believe we'd have to worry about Clemson should they lose though. Their overall resume probably wouldn't be better than the Buckeyes and OSU would have the conference championship tie-breaker.
 
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ZEKE103 said:
I don't think the committee puts Clemson in over us with 2 losses. Think of the message the committee would be sending, it's ok to not win your conference and lose two games and get in over a team that lost 2 games but won their conference. Plus they would leaving out a major conference champion with the same record. I would be more worried about Miami staying over us if they lose to Clemson personally, since Miami would still only have 1 loss, and the committee obviously likes Miami seeing as they just moved up for barely escaping against a crappy team. Then that could be a OSU vs PSU situation like last year only this time Miami is us and we are PSU w/o even the benefit of a H2H win no less.

I'm not worried about U$C or ND honestly, U$C is already behind us with only 1 game to go and it would be against an underwhelming Stanford team, we'd be beating a strong UM team just as good as Stanford and beating a hopefully undefeated Wisky team in the B10. As for ND, they are ahead of us by one but with no conference title game, I don't see any chance they get in, especially with that blowout to Miami.

In my opinion we badly need Bama and Miami to win out, if either lose, they could be the team that stays ahead of us and keeps us out.

I'm sort of ticked at myself for starting to gather some hope, a few weeks ago I was accepting of the fact that Iowa beatdown was the nail in the coffin for us, but then this situation happened and now we are positioned with an outside shot, and it completely got my interest flowing again.
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Don't underestimate the amount of fuckery that might take place to get ND into the playoffs. They're already ahead in the ranking, and the committee will probably rationalize it in three ways. First, Notre Dame takes care of Chicago/Great Lakes country regionally. Secondly, the Michigan (8-4, lost to everyone with pulse) and Wiscy (played absolutely nobody until BCG) wins will also be viewed as underwhelming. And lastly, Ohio State had their benefit of the doubt year last year (2014 too if you want), and it's time to give it to somebody else, who just coincidentally happens to be the team for whom the press and espn are pushing. Anyone who really wants to see Ohio State in the playoff had better slaughter a goat to the gods for Stanford.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Don't underestimate the amount of fuckery that might take place to get ND into the playoffs. They're already ahead in the ranking, and the committee will probably rationalize it in three ways. First, Notre Dame takes care of Chicago/Great Lakes country regionally. Secondly, the Michigan (8-4, lost to everyone with pulse) and Wiscy (played absolutely nobody until BCG) wins will also be viewed as underwhelming. And lastly, Ohio State had their benefit of the doubt year last year (2014 too if you want), and it's time to give it to somebody else, who just coincidentally happens to be the team for whom the press and espn are pushing. Anyone who really wants to see Ohio State in the playoff had better slaughter a goat to the gods for Stanford.
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I don't see how OSU got the benefit of the doubt last year though. Their resume was clearly superior to Penn State's even with them winning the CCG plus we only had one loss to PSU's 2. Should OSU and ND win out, OSU would probably have more wins against Top 25 opponents assuming a loss to ND drops Stanford from the rankings, an equal number of losses, and a conference championship. If ND only had one loss they would unquestionably be in.
 
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Systems_id said:
I don't see how OSU got the benefit of the doubt last year though. Their resume was clearly superior to Penn State's even with them winning the CCG plus we only had one loss to PSU's 2. Should OSU and ND win out, OSU would probably have more wins against Top 25 opponents assuming a loss to ND drops Stanford from the rankings, an equal number of losses, and a conference championship. If ND only had one loss they would unquestionably be in.
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There was an argument to be made for both teams (PSU: conference champions and won head-to-head/OSU: better overall resume and only one loss). The committee decided in Ohio State's favor, and then Ohio State went out and embarrassed them as thanks. All I'm saying is that one shouldn't be horribly shocked if the smoke filled room doesn't break our way this year, particularly when it's ND that we're fighting for that last spot. If we win close over tsun and Cheese (and bad JT comes out to play) while ND rolls Stanford, I have a very bad feeling of what comes out of the committee room this time around.

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So if Bama loses to Auburn, their best win is an 8-4 Miss St. team. I. Suppose 9-3 lsu if they win Saturday. While I think Bama is a lock for a spot if they beat Auburn and lose to Georgia,I'm not as certain if they lose to Auburn. While I'd still be surprised by it, even with the shit show of Iowa you could argue OSU has the better resume. OSU would have 2 wins way better than bamas best win (wisc and psu) and another that is a little better than their best win (MSU). And the whole being a conference champ. And one of OSU's losses being against the #3 team in the country.
 
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