ESPN saying OSU will get in playoff

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This win is so convincing that the talking heads on ESPN say Ohio State will be in with TCU and Baylor out.

If that happens, how does that impact us bowl wise???


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Not a chance. How do you move TCU out after winning 55-3 today? You can't.
 






50PoundHead said:
Maybe it's just me, but I think Wisconsin is a little better than Iowa State.
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But if TCU was good enough to be #3 last week, I don't see anything they did today to change that. Ohio State lost to a marginal VT team at home. That ended their season. TCU lost to a top-6 Baylor team on the road.
 

But regardless, one of the conferences is gonna be pissed come tomorrow lol
 



Just one more reason to make it an 8 team playoff next year. TCU can't drop 2 spots with a 52 point win.
 

upnorthkid said:
I'd guess you have to compare relative losses though and the game vs MN as being the justification.
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If OSU holds on, a 52 point win over Becky is a lot more impressive than a 52 point win over a 2-10 ISU team. OSU's performance will be tough to ignore. It helps that their loss was early in the season also.
 

upnorthkid said:
But regardless, one of the conferences is gonna be pissed come tomorrow lol
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I say it will be the Big 12. They need a couple more teams and a conference championship game. TCU vs. Baylor would have been a great game.
 

If it were up to me it'd be Alabama, Oregon, TCU, and Ohio State. Florida State consistently barely sliding by average teams leads me to believe they wouldn't compete nearly as well in the CFP as the two aforementioned teams.
 



phipho said:
Just one more reason to make it an 8 team playoff next year. TCU can't drop 2 spots with a 52 point win.
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They can if the opponent is Iowa State, while the 3 teams behind them were beating Ga Tech, Wisconsin, and K-State, respectively. This isn't like the old days of the polls, simply winning doesn't mean you hold your spot, nor should it.
 

GameDay said:
If it were up to me it'd be Alabama, Oregon, TCU, and Ohio State. Florida State consistently barely sliding by average teams leads me to believe they wouldn't compete nearly as well in the CFP as the two aforementioned teams.
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I agree, but they won't do that. A 13-0 major conference champion will not be left out.
 

GameDay said:
If it were up to me it'd be Alabama, Oregon, TCU, and Ohio State. Florida State consistently barely sliding by average teams leads me to believe they wouldn't compete nearly as well in the CFP as the two aforementioned teams.
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Still, FSU won them all. That should count for a lot, considering no one else could do that.
 

Putting Ohio State in would accomplish one thing for sure. It would give the committee a way out the TCU/Baylor mess they created ranking TCU higher even though Baylor beat them.


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46Gophers said:
If OSU holds on, a 52 point win over Becky is a lot more impressive than a 52 point win over a 2-10 ISU team. OSU's performance will be tough to ignore. It helps that their loss was early in the season also.
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Let's make that a 59 point win. My guess is that TCU and Baylor fans will never forgive Becky for laying the egg that they have tonight. Big12 will not be happy tomorrow PM IMHO.
 

When time do they announce the four teams tomorrow?

Edit: Looks like it is 11:30am on ESPN.
 

Two things.

1) The four-team playoff is doing nothing to settle anything.

2) They picked the wrong year to implement it. Can anyone remember a more balanced year at the top?! The only undefeated team is an afterthought and seems like 6 teams could win the whole thing.
 

gopher7 said:
Two things.

1) The four-team playoff is doing nothing to settle anything.

2) They picked the wrong year to implement it. Can anyone remember a more balanced year at the top?! The only undefeated team is an afterthought and seems like 6 teams could win the whole thing.
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It would be even worse if it was still the BCS though. It would be a disaster if it were still just two teams.
 

I think it's only going to be like this most of the time going forward though. Parity has hit college football more so than ever. Even without increasing parity, a 4-team playoff with 5 power conferences is fundamentally flawed.
 

FSU, Alabama, OSU, and Oregon are the best 4 right now. You pick the order.
 

Gopher07 said:
Not a chance. How do you move TCU out after winning 55-3 today? You can't.
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According the the Big 12 rules, Baylor is the Conference Champion, not TCU and not Co-Champion. The playoff committee has said all along that winning your conference is very important.

I think you can easily make the argument that tOSU is better than Baylor. The four best conference champs are FSU, Alabama, Oregon and tOSU.
 

I smell an 8 team playoff on the stove.


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46Gophers said:
If OSU holds on, a 52 point win over Becky is a lot more impressive than a 52 point win over a 2-10 ISU team. OSU's performance will be tough to ignore. It helps that their loss was early in the season also.
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TCU also destroyed us. Their only loss was at top 6 Baylor. Demolished K State. I'm just saying the argument can be made either way and someone's going to be pissed. The 4 team playoff was a flawed idea from the start but we'd be having the same debate about the BCS but it would be between Oregon, Bama and FSU (because to be blunt, it'd be pretty hard to exclude the only undefeated power 5 team)
 

I remember reading that the committee was going to be focused on who truly are the best four teams, not just focusing on record. If that's even remotely true, then:

Oregon
TCU
Alabama
Ohio St.

FSU is clearly not a top 4 team. TCU would beat every ACC team, including FSU by 25+. Same likely goes for OSU.
 

GopherinPhilly said:
According the the Big 12 rules, Baylor is the Conference Champion, not TCU and not Co-Champion. The playoff committee has said all along that winning your conference is very important.

I think you can easily make the argument that tOSU is better than Baylor. The four best conference champs are FSU, Alabama, Oregon and tOSU.
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OSU just gave the selection committee an out for avoiding the big 12 controversy.
 


MNGoldenGophers1 said:
According the the Big 12 rules, Baylor is the Conference Champion, not TCU and not Co-Champion. The playoff committee has said all along that winning your conference is very important.

OSU just gave the selection committee an out for avoiding the big 12 controversy.
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Great point. OSU should be #4.
 

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