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One playoff spot left...Alabama or Ohio - What say ye???

RollRed said:
The math doesn’t work with 12 teams.... you end up with 3 teams left standing after the first two rounds are played. If you want more than 8 teams in, you gotta jump to 16 to make the math work.
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I drew up the "Solution" on paper many years ago. Take the top 16. Play them at bowl games each week. (So the big bowls would rotate semi finals as they do now) and the other 11 games would go to the oldest standing bowl games. Played from seasons end through december. On New Years Day you could have all the crap bowls during the day while people recover from hangovers, and play your title game at night.

Fans will still argue about #16/17/18 but its a better argument the number #4/5/6

Fans would be thrilled
Bowls would be happy
Networks would be estacic
 
Steelerfreak said:
So did Penn St last year. Ohio St will understand


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Yeah, I'm still burned about that one. Penn State beat OSU, won their conference, and still got pushed aside by OSU and Washington. Clemson pitched a shutout against OSU and Washington only managed 7 against Alabama. I don't know if Penn State would have won against either of these teams but I guarantee you they would have put up more than 7 points.
 
AggieSteel said:
The committee should just say “**** it” and give the 4th spot to Penn State


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Lost 2 games by a total of 4 points, both on the road, to top ten teams(at the time). Trailed at the end of those games for a combined 1:41. Tough loses, not bad ones.
Their last loss came the same day as Ohio St. by 3 in a very weird game that had a 3+ hour weather delay, while the buckeyes were getting beat by 3 TDs allowing over 50 to Iowa.
I'm not sure how that kept Ohio St above the Lions.

Again, dont care for Bama or the Buckeyes....Give CFU a shot. Why not?
 
OSU has the better resume and a conference championship. Wisconsin and Ala were very similar. Ala beat a 3 loss LSU team and a barely escaped a 4 loss Miss St team while getting totally dominated by a now 3 loss Auburn team. Wisconsin pummeled a solid 4 loss iowa team and a 3 loss michigan team before losing to OSU. People like to debate the SOS but this year the bottom line is that the SEC was way down and Alabamas "good" wins are not that good this year. Another thing hurting bama is the fresno state and auburn both lost. If auburn went and destroyed georiga again then Bama would have had a much better case. However Georgia totally dominated Auburn which was shocking. If Ala gets in its based on reputation only. OSU has the better resume and a conference championship and they should get in. I think excluding PSU last year was a travesty and I am hoping the committee rights its wrong. I cant see them picking two SEC teams in a down year while excluding 2 major conferences the big 10 and Pac 12. I think it would be fun to throw UCF in there......
 
After last year you cannot put OSU in... period.

OSU got in last year despite losing head to head to the team they knocked out of the playoffs, didn't have a conference champion ship or even make the game, and tge biggest argument was that Psu lost to a team they should have beat in Pittsburgh... Iowa was a worse loss than that... Bama had one loss, to the fourth ranked team, lets face it, the Big ten is overrated in football and benefits from name brand up-voting... its the same three teams as last year that are any good, but none are national championship level. I may not like Alabama, but they are more talented than the Big east teams, and a loss to their highly ranked rival shouldn't knock them out no matter how badly most would like to see it...

That being said its still overdue for a six or 8 team playoffs... 5 power conference champs and 3 wildcards...
 
I mean, tbh according to last years template, a one loss Wisconsin team that lost to OSU should be in the talks over OSU... since they think h2h and conference championship games don't matter
 
Cut a regular season game and go to an eight team format in the future. This way both would make it and we could watch the undeafrated Central Fla get blow out.

Also more games equal more $$$

Not sure who gets in. You could argue for Osu or Bama
 
No Bama or OSU Put in Wisconsin. Undefeated regular Season and a close loss in the Big 10 Championship. SEC is not that good anyway(Sorry Berm).
 
Coach said:
Cut a regular season game and go to an eight team format in the future. This way both would make it and we could watch the undeafrated Central Fla get blow out.

Also more games equal more $$$

Not sure who gets in. You could argue for Osu or Bama
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Hate agreeing with Coach but yeah I agree.
 
madinsomniac said:
I mean, tbh according to last years template, a one loss Wisconsin team that lost to OSU should be in the talks over OSU... since they think h2h and conference championship games don't matter
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your hate for all things OSU is delicious to me
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Ohio State isn't even in my discussion. They got blown out by Oklahoma by 16 and allowed 55 points in a 31-point loss to Iowa.
Alabama's only loss came at their rival, but it was by 12.
USC won their conference, lost to WSU by only 3, but that 35-point loss at Notre Dame hurts.
UCF had the weakest schedule, but went undefeated as a conference champion.

I'd rank them Alabama, USC, UCF, OSU.

Also, a 6- or 8- team playoff is clearly the answer. If you go 6 teams, the top two get a bye with the other three Power 5 conference champions playing and the best at-large conference champion. Higher seeds get home games. The 8-team is even better with the top 4 seeds getting home games. That way you have the five Power 5 champs, the best of the rest, and then two Wild Cards. Plus, it gives us a great slate of games in mid-late December before the good bowl games get started over New Year's Eve and Day.

Stainless said:
I was hoping for more chaos and controversy.

How did Clemson lose to Syracuse?
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QB got hurt.
 
SteelerFan448 said:
Ohio State isn't even in my discussion. They got blown out by Oklahoma by 16 and allowed 55 points in a 31-point loss to Iowa.
Alabama's only loss came at their rival, but it was by 12.
USC won their conference, lost to WSU by only 3, but that 35-point loss at Notre Dame hurts.
UCF had the weakest schedule, but went undefeated as a conference champion.

I'd rank them Alabama, USC, UCF, OSU.

Also, a 6- or 8- team playoff is clearly the answer. If you go 6 teams, the top two get a bye with the other three Power 5 conference champions playing and the best at-large conference champion. Higher seeds get home games. The 8-team is even better with the top 4 seeds getting home games. That way you have the five Power 5 champs, the best of the rest, and then two Wild Cards. Plus, it gives us a great slate of games in mid-late December before the good bowl games get started over New Year's Eve and Day.



QB got hurt.
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anyone who has watched any college football this year, knows damn well that USC is absolutely not a viable option, get out of here with that nonsense. UCF sure, USC no way
 
Alabama is in. Probably was not much of a discussion.
 
Very interesting, but i am kind of glad osu got screwed over
 
I can see either team. It really is hard to leave Ohio State and the Big Ten out when you see Ohio State at 5, Wisconsin at 6 and Penn State at 8 or 9.
 
jitter77 said:
Very interesting, but i am kind of glad osu got screwed over
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they didn't get "screwed over", they gave up 55 points to freakin' Iowa. You can't ignore that type of ridiculous beatdown
 
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