Ohio State let Alabama stay in it...they outplayed them big time, but the score didn’t show it. OSU dominated both Alabama and Oregon—with their 3rd string QB!
Alabama played a soft SEC schedule...they need to play some better teams for the Big 10, Big 12, and Pac 12 so they can claim they played tough teams. The SEC stunk in bowl games this year. And they typically get to play teams that are 5-10 seeds below them in voting...and they still lost.
Your comments are the strangest I’ve read in a long time.
Ohio State opened the season and struggles to beat Navy.
They then lost to Virginia Tech. Then they played powerhouse Kent State and ran up the score 66-0. They then gave up 28 points to powerhouse Cincinnati. Then gave up 24 points to a not very good Maryland team. Then played a no-body in Rutgers, then beat a weak Penn State team by 7 points. So the first 6 out of 7 teams they played were pansies. Is there any wonder they were not highly thought of? They only got in the Final Four because they blew out Wisconsin in the Big 10 title game. The committee was looking for any reason to put them in the playoff. So they jumped over a TCU team that was rated higher than them and finished the season winning 59-0. Plus TCU played a tougher schedule. Ohio State played one of the easiest schedules in the country and struggled to beat no-bodies.
To say they let Alabama “stay in the game” is the dumbest remark I’ve ever read about college football. Coach Oscar Meyer’s trademark is blowing out teams when he gets the chance. TCU should have been playing in the title game, not Ohio State. Ohio State got in the Final Four because of name recognition and their huge fan base, nothing else.