Baylor, OSU, or TCU?

Who should be in the last spot of the playoffs?

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#26
#26
I don't agree with the original " I think we all agree". I think TCU is a lock. I think OSU gets in over FSU.
 
#28
#28
I'm not saying it's right but, in my opinion, there is no way they will leave a Big 10 team out
 
#29
#29
The Ohio State will likely be in seed four.

Bama vs tOSU.

FSU vs the Ducks.

Bama vs FSU for all the marbles.

Bama wins.
 
#33
#33
PJ4VOLS said:
The announcers who called the OSU game on Fox were so far up their @$$ they could smell urbans breath. Ohio State should not make it in based on a national media campaign .
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Ha! They won't; they will make it in based on performance trajectory, performance potential, strength of record, and fanbase size. :).

I activy rooted against Ohio State until Miller went down - couldn't stand that they were so highly ranked. After that I just stopped paying attention. What they have accomplished is impressive. I feel badly for Baylor if they are out, but you have to be a conference champ. I'm pretty sure that will emerge as a prerequisite from here on out.
 
#34
#34
DD4ME said:
Taking off the bias and watching how OSU closed I think you have to give them the nod. Had it been close against Wisconsin then Baylor. I despise OSU but that's the way I see it. You cannot keep out an undefeated and reigning champion fsu. Bama and OSU looked like the complete teams. If those 2 play the semi I expect it to be more competitive than the final.
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I don't think it's biased to be against OSU. Their loss to VT shouldn't be ignored; it's far worse than TCU or Baylor's loss.
 
#35
#35
Notorious B.E.N said:
Before tonight i was all for Baylor to get in over TCU, but i can honestly say the OSU game tonight was very impressive. Also OSU is a true conference champ, Baylor isnt but that's because of the dumbass conference splitting it. I don't know who i would put in between OSU and Baylor but i do know i would hate to be on that committee tonight.
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Yeah, Baylor really is the true conference champion. They did play a Big 12 championship game. They just played it back in October. I'm amazed at the way everybody wants to act like that game never happened.
 
#37
#37
ohio state should not be in this playoff is so jacked up it's unreal to be honest i like to see all top 10 teams play each other and who ever wins out is the champ like college basketball cause this won't answer any questions will have one win one bowl and one win the other so what let them play each other
 
#38
#38
If you go to an 8 team playoff, you take one regular season game out ... at least. This isn't basketball.

If I'm a coach or AD that cares anything about the players, and they go to an 8 team playoff without shortening the schedule, I say "no thanks".
 
#39
#39
MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
No way they leave an undefeated power5 conference champ out.
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Then what's their value as a committee if they just go chalk on record? They need to show they are smarter than the rest of us. Anyway, as I posted once before this is really an easy job. Just pick any two of the four candidates outside of Bama/Oregon and you get it right. There is no way to definitively justify to the masses any one of those four over the other three. All four are essentially deserving. They only way to solve this is to keep expanding like basketball until you get to the point where the team "robbed" by being left out is a "don't care" to the masses. Maybe that's 8. Maybe 12. Maybe 16.
 
#43
#43
I went back and looked at the schedules for TCU, Baylor, and Ohio State…then matched that up against the CFP Rankings from October 28th (the first CFP poll). I’ll spare you the laborious journey, and summarize as briefly as I can:
- Ohio State loses to Va Tech, 35-21, on September 6th.
- Baylor beats TCU, 61-58, on October 11th.
- Baylor loses at WVU, 41-27, on October 18th.
- On October 28th, the first CFP poll is released. All three teams have one loss. And it’s TCU #7, Baylor #12, OSU #14. It’s clear that the committee has already given more weight to Baylor’s loss to WVU than TCU’s loss to Baylor. That debate is over, in the eyes of the committee, right out of the gate. From this point forward, Baylor is behind TCU in the CFP poll.
- On November 11th, it’s TCU (4), Baylor (7), OSU (8). Baylor has an open date on November 15th; OSU plays at Minnesota, and wins, 31-24.
- On November 18th, the CFP swaps Baylor and OSU. Now it’s TCU (5), OSU (6), and Baylor (7).The TCU, OSU, Baylor order is maintained from this point forward.
- If Ohio State gets in, then it will be Alabama (1), Oregon (2), FSU (3), Ohio State (4), TCU (5), and Baylor (6). The logic will be that Ohio State separated themselves with a 59-0 win over Wisconsin in a conference championship game. With no official conference championship game, and with 10-1 co-champions, TCU and Baylor and the Big 12 – 4 = 12 lose out.
- If so, the CFP has abandoned a position they have held since October 28th: that Ohio State’s 14 point loss at home to an unranked Virginia Tech team keeps them behind two other one-loss teams with equal or better resumes’.
- Which would be wrong, but would not surprise me in the least.
Go Vols.
 
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#46
#46
I think it should be Baylor or TCU over OSU, but I have to admit I would laugh at the Big 12. They deserve something for wimping out over the co-champion thing.
 
#47
#47
The committee will put Ohio State in avoiding any controversy over why they picked TCU over Baylor or vice versa
 
#48
#48
Weezer said:
Ultimately, I think it's Oregon/Bama for the NC. As much as it pains me, I'll pull for the tide. I know many don't believe in rooting for conference mates, but think how many times strength of conference has been mentioned just tonight. Bama winning will suck, but ultimately it's best for UT. We have to keep the SEC strong so that when our day comes, we're not the ones on the outside looking in. Sad truth.
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uh...Auburn loss last year isn't hurting Bama this year. We will be in down to the wire recruiting battles with Bama in February for years to come. Cheer for the Tide if you want, just don't pretend you're doing the Vols a favor in the process.
 
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