Posted on 12/02/2017 5:21:44 PM PST by blam
Not anymore...
Clemson, Georgia, Oklahoma, Alabama
OSU won, I think Bama is in!!!!!!!
Yep, OSU needed a more convincing win. Wisconsin didn’t impress me at all.
Ohio State won their conference. Won two games against top 4 teams when games were played.
Alabama best who? Lost their division. Didn’t play in conference championship. Alabama is out.
I think the Clemson/Auburn game was the second game of the season and Clemson won 14-6. Not exactly a dominating win. And I didn’t say Clemson was not a good team, I said they play in the ACC, which is not a power football conference. It’s Clemson and everybody else.
I think Wisconsin is still more deserving than Ohio State. The Badgers had just one loss and it was by six points, not the 20+ point humiliation the Buckeyes suffered at Iowa.
If you judge the one-loss teams by their margin of defeat, Wisconsin looks best. Clemson lost badly to Syracuse. Oklahoma lost to Iowa State(!?!) at home. Alabama lost by 10+ to Auburn. Georgia was beat by worse.
Of course, if this was a totally fair world, the four finalists would be Clemson, Oklahoma, Georgia and the UNDEFEATED UCF Knights who did not lose to anybody.
Lol!
This is probably a good indication that some of these conferences are too BIG. I think the playoff selection process can handle a situation where two of the top four teams in the country happen to come from the same conference. But as we saw with Alabama and LSU a few years ago, the process breaks down when you have two of the top four teams in the country playing in the same DIVISION of the same conference.
I guess we will see. I find it tough to believe a team that cant even win its own division gets in, but whatever...
at least the Big ten wasnt a blowout like all the others were... the others werent even really close.
Allbarn got crushed, Miami didnt even try, neither did TCU..
The one remaining debate will be Alabama and Ohio State for the final spot. Our projection has Alabama as the fourth team, based on their having just one loss and Ohio State having an ugly 33-point loss to Iowa and struggling to beat a Wisconsin team the committee did not believe in. The counter-argument would be that Ohio State has better wins than Alabama and a conference championship. But that is probably not enough to jump all the way to the top four from No. 8.
I agree Bama will probably get in. I just dont believe they deserved it. If you cant even win your division whats the point?? Esp when the team that beat you got blown out in the CCG...
Look what happened a few years ago. Alabama and LSU played in the national championship game even though they came from the same SEC division. There’s no doubt they both belonged there. More than 40 players from that championship game went on to play in the NFL.
In that case yes...but this bama is a shell of that one...
I agree, but I also think we shouldn’t dismiss the possibility that two of the top four teams in the country right now happen to come from the same conference. This Alabama team is worse than it’s been in several years, but it may just be slightly less flawed than any team below it in the rankings right now.
I just don’t feel a team that can’t win its own division let alone conference should be in. Esp since sec is garbage except for georgia
The problem you're dealing with here is very common in any conference that has several good teams -- especially if the conference has multiple divisions and most of their best teams are in the same division. They often beat each other during the regular season, then a team with one or two losses in the regular season wins the conference championship game.
Is Georgia really the best team in the SEC, if they didn't have to play Alabama?
I think this whole situation is an argument against having multiple divisions in a conference. If a conference is too large to have every one of its teams play each other during the season, then it should be broken up into two or more smaller conferences. The last time Georgia won a national championship was in 1980, when Herschel Walker was a freshman. The SEC had ten teams that year. I don't see why the NCAA can't go back to conferences that size.
yes because really, look at the the SEC today... Fl? joke.. Tenn? joke... Arky? joke...not counting the lower tierd ones vandy etc...
Bama, Ga... maybe allbarn... thats really about it for “good” teams...
both miss are vastly overated every single year
Add LSU to the good teams in the conference. They could probably beat a lot of ranked teams right now.
Uh, they lost to Troy!!! At home!
Right. Troy finished 10-2, though. And Ohio State lost to Iowa by 31 points.
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