This is the one thing I'm looking forward to for the 12 team playoff. The fact that conference champs make it. No politics. No rankings. Win your conference and you get a ticket. Its the best part of the Big Dance. The fact that we don't have that as a requirement for the 4 team playoff just shows how much power the 'big' players have.
I will tell you how the shit 10 is going to continue to screw the other leagues. Their teams will get the best draws and the easiest routes to the final. They do it in every other sport yet suck. They never win national titles. They blow even though they do everything in their power to rig the game.
What amazes me about the shit 10 (as you call it) is how they draw $$$ and TV views while displaying the most archaic product in the sport. Slow, plodding offenses that barely know what a forward pass is makes for boring TV.
Everyone of their freaking games is on TV. And I'm not talking about ESPN+. Surely these prime time games featuring Iowa v. Illinois on NBC don't draw any viewers.
UT needs to watch a tape of the 2014 Big 10 championship game and learn a lesson. That was the year BU and TCU were duking it out. Going into the championship weekend, TCU was 4, BU 5 (even though we beat TCU) and tOSU was 6. tOSU put the pedal to the metal, and never let up, embarrassing Wisconsin 59-0. Final Poll = tOSU 4, BU 5, TCU 6.
That data point only matters if it involves a team the committee wants in the playoff. IIRC, TCU won by 50 that same weekend.
If Texas wins this weekend they will 100% jump Ohio State because of being a conference champion.
You can't put Bama in because we beat them at home by double digits.
I’m with you bro. I just think they won’t leave the sec out. I’ve already said in prior posts that if we win and Al wins it will and interesting decision for the committee. “The committee”. Sounds like a planet of the apes movie ending.
If Texas is left out and Bama gets in, ooc scheduling will be dead. The NCAA has created another unsolvable puzzle and has no way out. Might as well shoot the networks in the head now. Bye bye ever increasing tv contracts.
Yup. This ooc matchups are HUGE revenue generators early in the season for the networks. You start nixing those Texas vs Michigan games for Texas vs Oral Roberts--- and the networks will lose their sh!t.
I'll be very curious if this occurs. Would you leave out an undefeated FSU just to prevent this? Just listen to the talking heads on ESPN. They all state that there is ZERO chance that an SEC team gets left out. I know you guys are worried about the Big12 having the refs screw you today. But I guarantee the TV guys want you to get screwed more so than even Yormark does.
I get it, but teams change over the course of the year. Texas also has a loss to a 3 loss OU team. Every other team currently ahead of you only lost to an undefeated team. Ohio St barely lost to the number 2 team. Alabama COULD beat the number team and is playing WAY better than they did early in the season. The committees decision is to put THE best 4 teams in based on where they are right now. I'm of the opinion that Florida St even if they win is not as good as Texas right now without Travis. How do you keep them out though?? 13-0 and conference winner?? I'm not disagreeing with you on theory, but conference champions have been left out before because they say they need the 4 best teams. What IF Bama beats Georgia. You going to leave conference champion Alabama out? Are you going to kick Georgia out, a team who hasn't lost in 3 years? Is Texas better than Ohio St??
So Texas had had luck this year? And Alabama hasn't? How about that 4th and 31 ?
Just checking in. 2 loss OU. Cmon that’s an easy one. Get you’re facts straight dude.
If this were the ranking, you'd get the 3 seed as the committee would get the SEC in and thus could point to the head-to-head in ranking you above them. Bama will only be ranked over UT if its relative to earning the #4 and #5 slot.
