Ain’t officiating grand. The question is not whether OU might make a good showing - any of the top 10-12 teams could do that given the randomness factor involved in single trial contests. The question is what has OU shown so far? Mediocre schedule, humiliating loss to a worthless UT team, and an embarrassing showing against TCU. OSU found a way to win against every team except MSU. A close loss to MSU is not the equivalent of losing to UT. And, frankly, Stanford played a harder schedule and has more talent than OU.
“Ain’t officiating grand. The question is not whether OU might make a good showing - any of the top 10-12 teams could do that given the randomness factor involved in single trial contests.”
If you accept the ‘randomness’ argument then this conversation is pointless and the Championship Series is an exercise in futility.
“The question is what has OU shown so far? Mediocre schedule, humiliating loss to a worthless UT team, and an embarrassing showing against TCU. OSU found a way to win against every team except MSU.”
And OU found a way to win against every team but UT including finding a way to beat TCU without OU’s heisman candidate quarterback and it’s two leading rushers. You need to make up your mind. You seem to argue that a single loss by your favorite team isn’t important while a another teams single loss is important. I would say OSU’s single loss to MSU is much more serious than OU’s loss to UT since it kept OSU out of the championship.
“And, frankly, Stanford played a harder schedule and has more talent than OU.”
OU played and defeated five teams ranked in the top 25.
Stanford played 3 and OSU played 2.
Final Rankings
Clemson
Alabama
MSU
OU
Vegas Odds.
Al is 9.5 favorite over MSU
OU is 2.5 favorite over Clemson
Overall
Alabama is even odds to win championship
OU is 9 to 4
Clemson 5 to 1
MSU 6 to 1
FWIW: Oklahoma went 8-3 against the spread as a favorite this season (9-3 ATS overall), and covered 6 of its last 7 games.