2016 CFB Week 11 Thread

[SadSouthernBuck]

The committee values whatever they feel like. They made up some nonsense after the first week of rankings that proved to be completely irrelevant and backwards in week 2.

They didn't like Washington before they lost. They certainly aren't going to start liking them now.

The committee has been pretty consistent with their final rankings the last two years. They dropped both TCU and Baylor out while adding us because of the conference championship game.

Last year they ranked 1 loss Ohio state behind a 2 loss PAC 12 champion. And put a boy so great Sparty in at No. 4.

 

[OSU_Buckguy]

The committee has been pretty consistent with their final rankings the last two years. They dropped both TCU and Baylor out while adding us because of the conference championship game.

Last year they ranked 1 loss Ohio state behind a 2 loss PAC 12 champion. And put a boy so great Sparty in at No. 4.

look at whom we beat last year. our resume was not at all good. we played a bunch of nobodies before the final two games of the regular season. we beat only one team that was either ranked when we played them or ranked in the final poll (ttun). our second-best "win" was a three-point loss to msu.

in short, provided a win over msu and ttun, our resume this year will be vastly better than last year's.

 

[SEREbuckeye]

The committee has been pretty consistent with their final rankings the last two years. They dropped both TCU and Baylor out while adding us because of the conference championship game.

Last year they ranked 1 loss Ohio state behind a 2 loss PAC 12 champion. And put a boy so great Sparty in at No. 4.

Putting OSU ahead of TCU & Baylor was easy though. They were the win/loss record, and Ohio state actually played in a championship game. That was more about sending a message to the Big 12, that they need to get a championship game.

Putting a 2 loss conference champ in over an Ohio state team with wins over 3 top 15 teams and and likely the best loss of anyone in the top 5 - that would be interesting to see.

 

[Systems_id]

SCUM bastards can't do anything right. Just woke up and glanced at the score.

 

[SEREbuckeye]

SCUM bastards can't do anything right. Just woke up and glanced at the score.

On the bright side, the false sense of hope this is giving Wisconsin fans for a playoff spot is hilarious!

 

[sparcboxbuck]

I have a feeling UFM gets the plunger it and makes a statement the next couple weeks and gives the Playoff committee no reason to leave us out without a CC. I'll be the biggest Sparty fan if we make win these next 2. If anything, this has to show the committee of the strength of the B1G east with tOSU, PSU and scUM then throw in Wisconsin and Nebraska(some of this year) as well as Oklahoma top 10 team now and Tulsa a 3 loss team(Houston, tOSU and Navy losses) the schedule is pretty loaded even compared to Bama's schedule.

This. When he needed the team to make a statement in '14 he got them motivated. There's been so many times I've seen Urb say, "Beat (next team)" in pressers lately. The emphasis is on crush the next opponent and move on... the rest will take care of itself.

 

[LordJeffBuck]

The committee has been pretty consistent with their final rankings the last two years. They dropped both TCU and Baylor out while adding us because of the conference championship game.

You may not remember this, but Ohio State (12-1) had a better record than either TCU (11-1) or Baylor (11-1) when the final 2014 playoff rankings came out. It seems only logical that the team with the better record made the playoffs over the teams with the worse record.

And quite frankly, we don't know what the playoff committee would have done if Ohio State had beaten Wisconsin 19-17 instead of 59-0. They may have thrown the "better record" logic out the window, gone with a gut feeling, and put TCU into the playoffs.

You can't really say that the committee has been "consistent" when they have only a two-year track record.

Last year they ranked 1 loss Ohio state behind a 2 loss PAC 12 champion. And put a boy so great Sparty in at No. 4.

And how did Sparty in the playoffs work? A 38-0 shellacking at the hands of Alabama, that's how. Nobody wants to see a repeat of that.

Sparty had lucky victories on the last play of the game against both Michigan and Ohio State, then squeaked out a 3-point win over Iowa in the CCG to "earn" their sport in the playoffs. The committee should have realized that Ohio State was the better team despite the head-to-head loss and told Sparty to go pound salt. The committee will have to do that this year if Penn State or Wisconsin, or god forbid Nebraska, ends up the Big Ten champ. There's no way the committee can send one of those teams (especially Nebraska) to the slaughter over an 11-1 Ohio State team with victories over (presumably) top-10 teams Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

The idea is to get the four best teams, not the four best conference champions. Let's hope the playoff committee remembers their mandate this year.

 

[shiloh]

When Ohio State beats Sparty/TTUN the next (two) wks, who is the only team with a realistic chance to beat 'Bama?

Why yes, you guessed it, an Urban Frickin' Meyer coached team.

Pretty sure the committee will take this into consideration er under advisement er follow the $$$ er tv ratings potential.

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As always, beat TTUN and it's a pretty good year regardless!

 

[Zurp]

Geez, I feel like I should come clean and say my profile picture isn't really me.

Good to know.
My profile isn't me, either. It's what I aspire to be.

 

[Telekinesis]

 

[Zurp]

So let's say Penn State makes it to the CCG, beats whoever their opponent is, and gets to #4 in the playoffs. Ohio State, at 11-1, gets in at the #3 spot. (Or Penn State at 3 and Ohio State at 4.) Let's say Penn State beats whoever, and Ohio State beats whoever. How great would it be to see another 63-14 beatdown in the NCG? What would the cult say about that? Especially since the referines wouldn't be able to give Ohio State any calls. HA! What if the neutral referees are even worse in favor of Ohio State??

 

[Buckeyebred97]

Last year, we were all rooting for Penn State to beat Sparty in the final week of the regular season.

This year, just the opposite.

And the chances of it happening are still the same

 

[Buckeyebred97]

This. When he needed the team to make a statement in '14 he got them motivated. There's been so many times I've seen Urb say, "Beat (next team)" in pressers lately. The emphasis is on crush the next opponent and move on... the rest will take care of itself.

Should be in if they go out and take care of business the way they have the last 2 weeks. At that point, I think we're possibly looking at 2 B1G teams in the CFP depending how the season plays out next 2-3 weeks.

 

[Buckeyebred97]

For the win?

Nice trolling

 

[jwinslow]

The committee has been pretty consistent with their final rankings the last two years.

They dropped both TCU and Baylor out while adding OSU because OSU finished with a monster peformance. TCU finished with a blowout of 10 loss Iowa State.

It wasn't clear who was the best B12 team and TCU's schedule was pretty lousy. There is no comparison to a OSU team who will likely have 3 top-10 wins and either finish behind a UW team they beat or lost on the road at the #3 team in america (and have transformed as a team since then).

Last year they ranked 1 loss Ohio state behind a 2 loss PAC 12 champion. And put a boy so great Sparty in at No. 4.

OSU was garbage for 10 out of 12 games and had their lunch money stolen from them at home in their only marquee game. They didn't deserve a bid. They got what they deserved and did not look like a playoff team. They looked like the 5th or 6th best team. Their ranking vs Stanford did not matter that much.

Same with Baylor/TCU. They both looked like the 5th best team in america or so, and it was debatable whether OSU was better but OSU had a championship game in their corner over a pretty good wisconsin team (and they slaughtered them).


This year, if the status quo holds true, you have a Washington team that they didn't respect before they lost who has played next to no one. Meanwhile, OSU looks like the second best team in america. That's a very different situation.



The committee also pushed through two garbage teams at 3 & 4 last year. They're going to think about that for a long time, especially when they can have the best matchup imaginable between Alabama and OSU as their semi final game. Everyone will tune in for that despite the timing of the game.