*O$U screwed out of # 1 seed...

[jamesvanderwulf]

LSU vs. Oklahoma.
*O$U vs. Clemson.

I guess it pays to play a NC non - major and only and 8 game league schedule. *O$U won every game by double digits , while LSU won 3 games by a single score...

 

[BelemNole]

Boo hoo. LSU looks better

 

[The Tradition]

LSU vs. Oklahoma.
*O$U vs. Clemson.

I guess it pay to play a NC non - major and only and 8 game league schedule. *O$U won every game by double digits , while LSU won 3 games by a single score...

tOSU will get throttled by LSU or Clemson, so it really doesn't matter.

 

[33hawkfan]

Boo hoo. LSU looks better

Against a terrible Georgia offense

 

[BelemNole]

Against a terrible Georgia offense

And Alabama?

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

LSU's QB couldn't win the job at *O$U so he transferred to the SEC...

The " body of work " > eye test...

 

[Tiny Hands Trump]

Oklahoma should not be in the playoff. The Big 12 is garbage.

 

[33hawkfan]

And Alabama?

Yes and Alabama beat who this year...

 

[SeaPA]

Buckies should be happy to get the opportunity to officially dethrone the defending champs. As a great man once (well, frequently) said - “If you wanna BE the man, you gotta BEAT the man.”

Now they get that chance. Wooooooooooooooooo!

 

[mnole03]

Against a terrible Georgia offense

Georgia has a top five defense.

 

[33hawkfan]

Georgia has a top five defense.

I could tell watching yesterday

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

*OSU NC schedule:
Florida Atlantic 9 - 3 CUSA Champion
Cincinnati 10 - 2 AAC runner-up
Miami of Ohio 8 - 5 Mac Champions
9 game undefeated Big schedule + Champ
Won every game by double digits

LSU NC schedule:
Georgia Southern 7 - 5 Sun Belt
Texas 7 - 5 Big 12
Northwestern State 3 - 9 Non-major
Utah State 7 - 5 Mountain West
8 game undefeated SEC schedule + Champ
Had 3 single score wins

 

[millah_22]

Oklahoma should not be in the playoff. The Big 12 is garbage.

The top 3 resumes are getting a shot at the title, OSU, LSU, and Clemson. All undefeated. Oklahoma is the only remaining 12-1 team. I don't have a problem with them getting the #4 spot.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Georgia has a top five defense.

So does Iowa...and Ohio State.

 

[TJ8869]

LSU's QB couldn't win the job at *O$U so he transferred to the SEC...

The " body of work " > eye test...

And OSU's QB couldn't win the job at Georgia so he transferred to the Big Ten.

Another way to look at this is that in five years of the four-team playoff system, the #1 seed still hasn't won a single National Championship. The committee did Ohio State a favor by giving them bulletin board material and putting all the pressure on LSU.

 

[ANYCHawk]

*OSU NC schedule:
Florida Atlantic 9 - 3 CUSA Champion
Cincinnati 10 - 2 AAC runner-up
Miami of Ohio 8 - 5 Mac Champions
9 game undefeated Big schedule + Champ
Won every game by double digits

LSU NC schedule:
Georgia Southern 7 - 5 Sun Belt
Texas 7 - 5 Big 12
Northwestern State 3 - 9 Non-major
Utah State 7 - 5 Mountain West
8 game undefeated SEC schedule + Champ
Had 3 single score wins

So LSU had the better non conference schedule and beat more top 10 teams.

So what exactly are you arguing?

 

[Jerome Silberman]

Oklahoma should not be in the playoff. The Big 12 is garbage.

Meh, better this than another SEC team.

 

[ThorneStockton]

My guess is if OSU and LSU swapped conference championship scores they'd also swap rankings.

 

[33hawkfan]

So LSU had the better non conference schedule and beat more top 10 teams.

So what exactly are you arguing?

How would you look at that and think LSU had the better non conf schedule? Because Texas was good a decade ago?

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

And OSU's QB couldn't win the job at Georgia so he transferred to the Big Ten.

I think he would have won the starting job at Georgia if he stayed as he made the all freshman SEC team and Fromm was a below average QB at best. Burrow already sat behind Barrett for 2 years after red shirting and wasn't going to beat him out...

 

[OrlandNole]

LSU beat four out of the other nine AP top 10 teams. Their No. 1 ranking is deserved.

 

[ANYCHawk]

How would you look at that and think LSU had the better non conf schedule? Because Texas was good a decade ago?

Cause I will always take a 7-5 power 5 school over a 10-2 sunbelt/aac school. If texas played in those conferences they'd be 10 wins too.

 

[SeaPA]

Meh, both have solid arguments. So does Clemson. You may as well throw all three in a hat and draw them randomly, for both opponent and location.

 

[jamesvanderwulf]

Cause I will always take a 7-5 power 5 school over a 10-2 sunbelt/aac school. If texas played in those conferences they'd be 10 wins too.

Iowa St > Texas. Cincinnati > Texas.
What about the the other 3 games? Plus the non - major that was supposed to be a negative in scheduling...

 

[Bro D]

tOSU was clearly the best team in the country all year. Just more unfounded SEC bias. tOSU is going to steamroll their way through the playoffs

 

[goldmom]

Boo hoo. LSU looks better

No kidding.

 

[desihawk]

It appears like WI accomplished something.

 

[ANYCHawk]

Iowa St > Texas. Cincinnati > Texas.
What about the the other 3 games? Plus the non - major that was supposed to be a negative in scheduling...

I don't care whether you beat a 10-2 AAC team or a 7-5. They are the same quality in my mind.

 

[ANYCHawk]

Meh, both have solid arguments. So does Clemson. You may as well throw all three in a hat and draw them randomly, for both opponent and location.

Clemson has one top 25 win

 

[TJ8869]

Clemson has one top 25 win

And almost lost to North Carolina.

 

[The Tradition]

And almost lost to North Carolina.

At least they didn't lose to Syracuse this year.

 

[bdg8]

LSU's QB couldn't win the job at *O$U so he transferred to the SEC...

The " body of work " > eye test...

Plus he wasn’t better than any of the quarterbacks at Nebraska

 

[33hawkfan]

Clemson has one top 25 win

But they beat some 7-5 power conference teams which are better wins than any top 25 non power five conference teams according to your logic.

 

[Lone Clone]

The top 3 resumes are getting a shot at the title, OSU, LSU, and Clemson. All undefeated. Oklahoma is the only remaining 12-1 team. I don't have a problem with them getting the #4 spot.

The question isn't whether OU is on a par with tOSU, LSU and Clemson. The question is whether any other team has a better claim to the fourth spot than Oklahoma, which is another thing entirely.

 

[ANYCHawk]

But they beat some 7-5 power conference teams which are better wins than any top 25 non power five conference teams according to your logic.

huh?

I think you're trying to use some transitive property thing here. Cincy beat some 7-5 Big 12 team so when they lost to OSU is a good loss because they beat the 7-5 BIg 12 team and that is somehow applicable to OSU who they didn't play but did play Cincy that beat them when they finsihed 7-5..

Look don't come here whining about non conference schedules when OSU played 0 Big 5 teams and LSU did.

 

[TJ8869]

To add insult to injury, Clemson opens as a 2-point favorite over OSU. I'm not a sports gambler, but I'd take OSU and the points.

 

[TJ8869]

Just imagine how crazy it would be right now if we didn't have the 4-team playoff and we were still operating under the BCS system where the top 2 teams play for the title.

The defending national champion goes undefeated and doesn't get a chance to defend their title? It would be absolute mayhem.

 

[destro72]

OSU beat Penn St & Wisconsin. LSU beat Alabama & Georgia. Not a difficult choice to make LSU #1.

 

[millah_22]

The question isn't whether OU is on a par with tOSU, LSU and Clemson. The question is whether any other team has a better claim to the fourth spot than Oklahoma, which is another thing entirely.

I think they had a legit claim to the 4th spot, and so did the committee.

 

[TJ8869]

The question isn't whether OU is on a par with tOSU, LSU and Clemson. The question is whether any other team has a better claim to the fourth spot than Oklahoma, which is another thing entirely.

Oklahoma is clearly a level below the top 3, but they earned the fourth spot. Baylor, Utah, and Georgia all had a chance to claim it and they all failed. Oklahoma has the only legitimate claim.