Running CFB playoff thread

By my count, 24 days.

 

Call me cynical, but the conference title game loss all depends on the TV appeal/brand name of the teams involved.

Let’s hypothetical say Ohio State and Indiana finish with two losses (this obviously isn’t this season), but the Buckeyes win the tiebreaker and make the B1G championship game. Do you think OSU would be penalized for losing it? Hell no.

Switch the two teams around, with the Hoosiers getting into the conference championship and losing it … that’s when you get, “Well, Ohio State has only two losses and Indiana has three!” Buckeyes get the invite.

 

If you make the conference title game, lose and don't make the playoff, you must have a terrible record.

I'm not going to cry about someone being the 13th-team being left out. The fifth or sixth team getting left out was, in almost every case, someone that was going to challenge for the national title had they gotten in.

 

If you're 10-3 and on the bubble, those three losses better be to Oregon, Ohio State and/or Penn State and Indiana. Or in the case of SEC, Texas, Georgia and/or Alabama and Ole Miss, Texas A&M or Tennessee.

If you lost to Vanderbilt, Kentucky, Louisville or USC, too bad. I don't care if you made the conference championship.

 

Prepare to be disappointed.

 

If ASU wins the Big 12 championship, the Big 12 might get shut out of the playoffs. Big Ten, SEC, ACC, MWC and AAC champions (if the last two are Boise State and Army) could be the five highest-ranked conference champions and nab the auto berths.

And a 3-loss Colorado team, or BYU team with two losses (if it loses to ASU this week), aren't getting an at-large invitation.

 

I think the Big 12 champ is guaranteed in with ACC, B10 and SEC. I don't think the Big12 gets a second team in at this point. You have a few SEC teams that look good to win out AND not appear in the conference title game inside the top 12. I know they only have one loss each, but Penn State and Texas should not be in the top 5.

 

Nope. Five highest-ranked conference champions. Now ASU might move above Army and BSU if it somehow finishes 11-2 but nothing is guaranteed.

 

You don't think the Oregon State game will count as a quality win for Boise Micro? C'mon!!!!

 

Army is not getting in unless it beats Notre Dame.

 

I will shed no tears for any team that gets shut out if they have a loss. Particularly those SEC teams that took dumps against bottom tier teams. My criteria? Would a reasonable person think you could be the best team in college football? For that reason, I'd leave out Texas and Penn State, they clearly aren't. I do think Georgia might be. Bama probably not. (Though Sagarin has them No. 1, after that Mercer win) The entire Big 12 and ACC? No.

 

It would do my heart good to see it, but i don't think that Army stands a chance against ND's OL and DL.