College football 2016 Week 14/championship week running thread

ESPN has revealed the matchups for the third annual College Football Playoff. No. 1 Alabama will face No. 4 Washington, and No. 2 Clemson has No. 3 Ohio State. Both games will be played on December 31, with the final on January 9 in Tampa.

Bama, Clemson, OSU, Washington picked for CFP

 

Penn State's got Idaho in 2019, so they have a good shot at making the playoffs then.

 

If Ohio State must be in, then there should be an automatic drop to No. 4 for not winning your conference, er, division.

 

Eh? That makes no sense.

 

Makes as much sense as dropping them from No. 2 to No. 3 (which has zero effect on anything, so why do it?). At least you're sending a signal that while a conference runner-up (or worse) CAN make the playoff, its road will be as difficult as possible.

Just like an NFL division runner-up can have the second-best record in its conference, but it still gets the No. 5 seed in the playoffs (behind all the other division winners).

 

And that has always been a stupid thing in the NFL, like when the 11-5 Saints visited the 7-9 Seahawks.

 

Yeah, but at least the 11-5 Saints didn't get into the playoffs at the expense of the winner of its division.

 

Too much wood and dick-waving about winning conferences. Ohio St. did more than enough to justify No. 2. The alignment in that conference is almost as dumb as this entire selection process, but that is not Ohio St.'s doing.

 

If you had a conclusive result in that matchup, it would be one thing. But three points, on the road, thanks to an absurd fluke of a blocked FG and a perfect carom ... it doesn't exactly amount to dead solid proof that Penn State is the better team.

 

Penn State and Baylor will not get the benefit of the doubt from the committee anytime soon.

No Penn State in the CFB playoff means fewer 2011 storylines for the next four weeks.

What happened makes all of college football look bad because those coaches and administrators know they've long looked the other way on rapes, assaults and abuses of the system in making college football what it is today, complete with $6 million coaches and practice facility palaces.

 

Same here.

 

I'm of the school that says when two teams play and one scores more points, that is a conclusive result. Penn State can take it up with their commissioner, who was more concerned about lobbying for OSU.