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OSU beat more top 20 teams than Alabama did, but somehow you focus on the one game they did poorly rather than their quality wins. There's a reason the computers (which don't suffer from nearly as much bias as the self-affirming community of sportswriters and coaches) ranked them higher than Alabama -- because they looked at the entire season.

Remember, Alabama was #1, and lost at home in the world's most boring field goal kicking contest, therefore not even making it to their conference championship game, let alone winning their conference. Meanwhile, OSU's lone loss was worse, but they had more quality wins and won conference title in the second best conference in the country.

I'd say there's at least a reasonable argument in favor of OSU. The only people who seem to dismiss that out of hand are SEC partisans.

(For the record, I'm a Big 10 partisan, but I have the good sense to not claim that any Big 10 team should have even been included in a playoff...)

Whine some more but get your facts straight. Alabama was ranked #2 when Alabama and LSU played the first time. So Alabama lost in overtime to the number one team in the country. Quality wins? Unfortunately, the quality loss counted more in the minds of those who vote on this stuff.

SEC has how many in a row?????

OSU beat more top 20 teams than Alabama did,

That's just a bad joke that people keep repeating. OSU beat several grossly overrated teams. Try to find those teams in the final rankings after twelve or thirteen games have been played.

Bama played two top five teams. The first OSU opponents that can be found are down at #15 and #16. The final rankings give us the real relative strengths of the two teams' schedules. OSU played a weak schedule and lost to a third rate opponent.

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