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2013 Preseason and regular polls

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I was with everyone else that said before the season that a 25-0 Urban Meyer team will not be shut out of the the Title game because of other undefeated teams.

Crazy, and unfortunate, that I don't believe that anymore.
 
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I think it's clear that ESPN is fully aware what a team with this much talent and a chip on it's shoulder is capable of when coached by UFM. They're scared Urban will slaughter their cash cow. They're doing everything they can to prevent it. If FSU loses, they'll be pimpin Stanford to jump tOSU to play Bama. If Bama loses, they'll have no problem with tOSU playing FSU and they'll bitch and moan that Bama could've beaten the winner.
Also, if I hear Jesse Palmer say that Stanford losing to Utah doesn't really count because they "Weren't playing Stanford football" one more time, I will end him.
 
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This season is, at the moment, shaping up to be a year too early. Next year the top four will play it off regardless of whether the talking heads "know" the top two teams are clearly ahead of the others, or not. :roll2:
 
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Jake said:
This season is, at the moment, shaping up to be a year too early. Next year the top four will play it off regardless of whether the talking heads "know" the top two teams are clearly ahead of the others, or not. :roll2:
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Yeah but there is still an element of BS with the "selection" of those four teams and the taking heads will certainly be offering up their opinions.
 
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Mike80 said:
I'm starting to think there's a certain impossible standard of perfection thing going on when it comes to Ohio State.

It doesn't matter if they win 140-0, someone would drag them down. When Boysee was beating Southwest Wyoming State Penitentiary for Blind Convicts Who have Gout, ESPiN was all over their ballsacks. Ohio State recruits elite players, marches through their schedule for 2 straight years and gets zero respect. FSU has beaten exactly one team worth a crap (Clemson), a team that has been chronically over-rated for the past 5 years.
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SWSPFBCWHG has a very underrated running game.
 
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Yeah if the playoff started this year, there's no doubt in my mind that Stanford or Baylor would be more deserving than tOSU, according to ESPN. The shittiest part of this nonsense is that tOSU is one of a very fews teams that have attempted to schedule tough OOC games, and not a "name" at a neutral site, but quality opponents, with a home and home.

I hope ESPN gets the HIV.
 
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buckeyebri said:
It is all just a prelude to playoff expansion in a couple of years
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There will be a lot more controversy over selecting 8 and 9 than there ever will be over selecting 4 and 5.

The idea that expanding the playoffs is about determining the true champion is idiotic (and I know you didn't even hint at that).

It's all about money and it opens up the door for some bullshit to happen to the best teams along the way while reducing drastically the drama of the regular season.

Just look at the NFL and also think about all the pumpkins we'd give right now as Ohio State fans about any other games in the final three weeks of the season if it was an 8 or even 4 game playoff this year.

I am perfectly fine with the system the way it is now (even if undefeated OSU would get left out) and think that four teams is plenty.

My dream is four mega conference champions playing in the four team playoff (with maybe a two team play-in against the 3-4 seed while the 1-2 get a bye or something); but I am resigned to the fact that $$$ will drive the system towards something infinitely shittier than that.
 
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Exactly. I feel as if I'm witnessing the beginning of the end of the greatest sport on Earth. The first couple years every one will talk about how cool the playoff is and wonder why it took so long. Eventually though, the playoffs will expand to the "top" 16, and a team will go undefeated thru the regular season and lose in the finals (which will be played 20 miles from the lower seeds campus) to some three loss team that finished third in it's division.

That will be the day that college football died. I just hope I'm not around to see it.
 
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buckeyebri said:
Yeah but there is still an element of BS with the "selection" of those four teams and the taking heads will certainly be offering up their opinions.
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It'll be evident in the seeding and selection process as well.
The SEC is basically guaranteed home-field advantage every year. I think it's a lie to call it a "playoff" when all the locations are in SEC, PAC, and Leftover10 country.
Playoffs are either at truly neutral sites, or the seed gets an outright home game.
 
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