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Scenarios for Final CFP Playoff Rankings

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buckeyemania11 said:
Hoping Utah and OU both win so we see how much it really is about who the best teams are and not who the best money bringers are.

If Utah and OU both win close games theres no reason OU should leap frog them.
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Meh, that 4th spot if often tricky and this year no exception. If both teams win, both would have legitimate reasons to be in. OU would have more top wins but Utah perhaps a more balanced team and less close victories. Either of those teams would have a legit claim. Personally, I think it would be nice if Utah was selected but I could see it going either way. Anyway, I guess we’ll see how it all plays out this weekend.
 
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Nigel Tufnel said:
Meh, that 4th spot if often tricky and this year no exception. If both teams win, both would have legitimate reasons to be in. OU would have more top wins but Utah perhaps a more balanced team and less close victories. Either of those teams would have a legit claim. Personally, I think it would be nice if Utah was selected but I could see it going either way. Anyway, I guess we’ll see how it all plays out this weekend.
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UGA winning would make it really tricky.

I think LSU is pretty much in regardless but if OU/BU and Utah or one of them wins in blowout fashion it at least makes it difficult on the committee
 
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Assuming normal margins of victory for both Utah and OU I don't see why all of a sudden the CFP would jump OU up.

They have had Utah ahead of OU every single week to date. Before Oregon took the 2nd loss, they had both PAC12 teams ahead of OU.

OU would have to hammer Baylor while Utah all but lost their game imo.
 
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BuckeyeSoldier said:
my conspiracy theory; assuming tOSU and LSU win. LSU jumps tOSU. not because of strength of schedule or resume or eye test.. but because the bowls do NOT want Clemson and LSU out west. The pocket books say keep LSU in SEC territory.
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I don't see how they could logically justify LSU leaping us unless LSU wins in blowout fashion and we end up in a close one with Bucky. But SEC! works wonders.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
I don't see how they could logically justify LSU leaping us unless LSU wins in blowout fashion and we end up in a close one with Bucky. But SEC! works wonders.
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I think the committee moving Wisconsin into the top 10 of the rankings this week will justify keeping the Buckeyes #1 if they win this weekend. That would be 3 top 10 wins (ranking when they played) for Ohio St. Beating Penn St., Michigan, and Wisconsin when they were all ranked in the top 10. And Wisky should have been top 10 first time around if not for the choke job against Illinois, same with the pedsters against Minny.
 
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Someone posted an article earlier in a thread (can't find it now) that stated the #1 team in the final CFP rankings doesn't in fact choose which bowl they play in. If not, then how is it determined? Does the committee decide who plays where when they submit the final rankings?
 
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Root for LSU in a close one while we win big. That keeps us at 1 while preventing two SEC! teams from getting in. Plus, Utah and then the LSU/Clemson winner is an easier path than playing LSU and then the Clemson/UGA winner. Although the PAC getting left out again, probably significantly moves the needle on getting a 8 team playoff.
 
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