OT: CFB Playoff

[bobbygt]

Which top 10 team did Clemson beat? It's best win is FSU @ #11. UL wasn't a top ten team at the end which is all that matters. Or that is what the committee said was it's purpose. Look at the complete body of work, which could only be done last Sunday morning. Rankings before that or when they play don't matter. Those are incomplete opinions.

The other issue is that of losses and statistical efficiency (otherwise known as putting numbers to the eyeball test)

All that is a function of who you play, your conference which you have no control and your OOC which you do. UW is going to look better because they played 4 tomato cans. Clemson is going to look better because they played in the ACC where the second best team had 3 losses. They lost to Bama, nice try but no credit for losing.

OU played UH and OSU. UH turned out to be a's good as 4 loss UL but they lost that game and to OSU, so no credit. That's why the B12 wasn't discussed at all.

PSU lost to Pitt, who also beat Clemson and Michigan. PSU played three top 10 teams, the AAC champ Temple, and top 25 team Pitt going 3-2. Is that better than the four that made it? Anewer that and you will know if the committee got it right. I don't see how OSU makes it over their conference champion when the resumes are close and they lose the head to head match up.

I like the idea of the committee adding an extra loss for reams not in their conference's CCG. There should be a penalty for sitting at home.

FSU is #10 in the AP poll- I see they are #11 in the CFB rankings.

Who lost to Bama btw in your above statement?

I already showed you why Clemson is more deserving than both UW and Penn State.

UW only played 3 top 25 teams, going 2-1, and a horrible OOC. Clemson played 5 top 25 teams, going 4-1. Their OOC was @Auburn, 10-3 Troy and a rivalry game against 6-6 South Carolina. With the exception of Ohio State's win @Oklahoma, no other team in the country has as good an OOC win as @Auburn.

As for PSU, the Ohio State win was good, but is there any real difference between #8 Wisconsin and #11 Florida State? You can draw a line at #10 because it's easy, but I don't see much of a difference between the teams ranked 7-15.

PSU top 25 wins- wins against #3, #8, #24
Clem top 25 wins-#11, #13, #14, #22

Those are almost identical.

They both lost to Pitt, but PSU lost by 39 pts to Michigan. It's for that reason that Clemson has a better resume than PSU.

 

[upstater]

They both lost to Pitt, but PSU lost by 39 pts to Michigan. It's for that reason that Clemson has a better resume than PSU.

I have no qualms with Clemson getting in over PSU.

That being said, you can't bash PSU for playing Michigan and losing by that much when Michigan is such a highly ranked team. The B1G was very good this year, a tough conference. It's also obvious that many people aren't aware of the ridiculous injury situation for that game, which was the worst I'd ever seen n college football. PSU's case this year is going to be interesting in the future when a 10-2 team wins the SEC Championship and gets left out of the 4 team playoff in favor of, say, an 11-1 Utah team that beat San Jose St., Southern Idaho and BYU.

 

[bobbygt]

I have no qualms with Clemson getting in over PSU.

That being said, you can't bash PSU for playing Michigan and losing by that much when Michigan is such a highly ranked team. The B1G was very good this year, a tough conference. It's also obvious that many people aren't aware of the ridiculous injury situation for that game, which was the worst I'd ever seen n college football. PSU's case this year is going to be interesting in the future when a 10-2 team wins the SEC Championship and gets left out of the 4 team playoff in favor of, say, an 11-1 Utah team that beat San Jose St., Southern Idaho and BYU.

I know they were missing all of their LBs. I was pulling for PSU to get in- I was just defending Clemson, who I think is #3 at worst, but appropriately ranked at #2.