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I think I said it before in this thread, and others have too - that this year we don't even need a playoff to determine the best team. We know. Having 8 teams just gives another team a shot at the 1 in a million shot at beating Alabama, who is the obvious best team.
Yea I think Bama fans all feel this way. UW was more balanced, but we know what Watson can do. OSU never looked scary.
Weird post. If anything giving more weight to arbitrary conference tiebreakers over having a far more impressive resume makes it MORE likely to have these embarrassing blowouts, not less. Sure it didn't work out this time with OSU but there are exceptions to everything. Overall taking teams with notably weaker resumes is going to lead to fewer competitive games, not more. And it's not like PSU might not have lost just as badly if not worse. After all they already have a 40 point blowout loss this season and it was to a team that's not as good as Clemson.
It wasn't the eye test. Ohio State had better wins, had fewer losses, and had better losses. Ohio State beat more top 10 teams. Their only loss was on the road at night to another top 10 team in a close game. Penn State not only had more losses, each of those losses individually (a loss to an unranked team and a 40 point monster blowout loss) were significantly worse. Conference title is a nice tiebreaker, but they weren't tied. Their resumes weren't even comparable.
I'm sorry, but I think this is silly. Not really surprising since I've had a higher opinion of UW than you all season.
Pretty sure PSU could've gotten at least a FG off Clemson. They might've lost, but there's a good chance nobody's turning the game off at halftime.
Too lazy to scroll like 2 posts up?So, the same as duhOSU then?
Does it matter though? "Precedent" only matters to people arguing on internet forums. It's not like players aren't trying in games that were deemed slightly less consequential by the committee the year before.
The season started 4 months ago, so that game, and the Pitt loss, are well within the timeline of selecting the four best teams to compete for the College Football National Championship.
Florida Atlantic - good thing coaching has nothing to do with managing people. Good luck with your new head coach:mr. furley said:http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18394667/lane-kiffin-not-coach-offense-alabama-crimson-tide-title-game
On Thursday, Kiffin appeared 15 minutes late to the team's Peach Bowl media day and was the last Alabama coach to leave the event. By the time he got out of the Georgia Dome locker room to where the buses were supposed to be, they were already headed back to the team hotel in downtown Atlanta.
guy is a petulant 12 year old. here's to hoping he crashes and burns at FAU then fades out of football completely.
Sarkisian was an immature frat guy with a drinking problem when he as at UW, but he still has a far better handle on how things really work than Kiffin does.
I honestly can't recall the Sark history. Was it just the one incident at the boosters event, or was that the culmination of multiple things?
I'm just happy that the people who said PSU was going to get run out of the building had to drink a tall glass of S TFU.
You should focus less on OSU. Penn State wasn't close to them. The issue was UW.
Yeah, definitely not a one time thing.proninja said:
Yeah, I agree. Sark was a guy like many of us who just loved to have a good time and was afforded that with time on the road, a huge expense account and a lifestyle that encourages guys to have fun and let it loose - so long as they win and that's what he did at UW after years of frustration. It just caught up to him. I would have loved to hang out with Sark for a night in his prime.
I have no Particular issue with osu. Not a fan or hater of either school.
Conference championship is just another game to evaluate. With these 14 team mega conferences/profit centers, the division winner not always the best team. Get used to it, it's 1985 anymore.
They also get the advantage of adding things. Without that extra game to get a good win against Wisconsin, PSU's argument is even worse (by a lot). The same goes for Washington with that win over Colorado. Regardless of the "conference championship" that came with them, those wins alone were things that propped them up into the discussion. If the Pac-12 didn't have a conference championship game Washington still would have been Pac-12 champs, but without that Colorado win they might have missed the playoff. That Colorado win (whether or not it was a "title game") was huge for their resume.
Yes, that was the standard adhered to early in the playoff. When the entire big 12 top echelon was left out for a osu team with a light resume, who lost their only significant OOC game to an under .500 VT team. Osu then was rewarded for adding to their resume.
This year, OSU had already beaten Wisc on the road at night. PSU's conf champ victory over Wisc didn't even match that even though it certainly added something to their resume, which by the committee's own words was not close to OSU's resume.
Which prompted the question to Saban yesterday in his PC, where he answered that there no chance of Kiffin participating in any way with the team leading up to or during the final. I don't know what the hell Lane is doing...but doesn't look like even super-agent Sexton is able to control his mouth.
