Pretty sure the playoff criteria wasn't supposed to be primarily based off the most recent game played.
Big 12 Left Out
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Pretty sure the playoff criteria wasn't supposed to be primarily based off the most recent game played.
Interesting fact. That craptastic Wisconsin team that Ohio State beat was 3-2 after their first five games. Then they got to play the other garbage teams in the Big Ten and their crappy West Division teams. They rattled off 7 straight Big Ten wins.
The Big Ten is kind of like the MAC. Suck at the beginning of the season till you get to play the other crap teams in your conference and then you beef up your record.
The Big Ten is kind of like the MAC. Suck at the beginning of the season till you get to play the other crap teams in your conference and then you beef up your record.
That's what I don't get. Everyone is falling all over themselves because tOSU beat Wisc 59-0 but that's the same Wisc team that lost to Northwestern and only beat the Hawkeyes by 2 points. Nobody seems to bring up those facts though. Heck ISU beat Iowa by 1 more point than Wisc. The badgers aren't that great.
I'm impressed that tOSU had a 3rd string qb that came in and did well in his first start but I'm not impressed that they beat Wisc.
There was no consideration given to Conference strength. The Big Ten was the weakest of the conferences. And Wisconsin was from the weakest division of the Big Ten. Wisconsin was far worse than the Missouri team that played Alabama.
And should have Gary Patterson continued to run up the score on ISU? He refrained from running up the score. In hindsight would the committee have dropped them down if TCU had won something like 76-3 over ISU?
I am hoping that Alabama puts a whipping on Ohio State.
Playoff Logic is flawed right now. 5 "power" conferences and 4 playoff slots. Anyone with an ounce of logic would make it 6 teams (2 byes), 5 guaranteed slots for power conferences, and one wild card spot for an SEC team or undefeated non power 5 to climb in. Would remove almost all subjectivity, would get rid of the "oh the SEC just beats up on each other" argument, and would lead to better non-conference scheduling early in the season. Win win win.
Why 6? There were 4 "BCS" level bowls making for an obvious first round of 8. There was also a proven ranking system that, while not perfect, was a known commodity and probably as objective as we would ever see.
The minute they said "committee" they might as well have been saying "the field will be fixed to help the Big Ten". In basketball it's different, the committee has been around a long time, people know what measuring tools it uses, and with a 64 team field and all the guaranteed spots available the committee's biggest controversy is picking teams like 19 win Nebraska as bubble teams that will get blown out by better teams in the first round.
They could have had an 8 team playoff with 3 at large spots, zero controversy, and MORE MONEY...but for some reason they had to set up a rigged WWE style committee to ****** the thing how they wanted.
