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2017 College Football Playoffs (and Other Bowl Games)

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Fortunately for the Buckeyes there's only one thing worse than Buckeye national media fatigue ~ anyone/Bueller/anyone? ~ you guessed it ~ Crimson Tide national media fatigue!

So, if the situation was reversed ie the Buckeyes played a lousy schedule, including Mercer, in a lousy conference and lost their last game against their rival TTUN 26-14 would they have a dog's chance in hell of getting in the playoffs? Rhetorical.

Re: if it's better the Buckeyes don't get in ~ referencing back to my earlier post:

Re: CFP & Bowl Games there are many variables: the longgg layoff over the holidays, being an underdog, focus, dedication, preparation, favorable location, thinking about the upcoming NFL draft, luck, etc. etc.
In a nutshell, bowl games are a crap shoot!

And rematches are always problematic which is why Auburn beating Georgia is a negative for 'bama re: the committee.

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Bottom line win, lose or draw the rest of the country is gonna hate the Buckeyes regardless, so any opportunity for the Buckeyes to intensify their hatred is fine with me. :rofl:

Make it happen! :nod:

btw, Fuck TTUN and 'bama !!!

that is all ...
 
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ZEKE103 said:
But if anything the committee shows their top requirements are always changing importance. Before last year everyone thought conference title was almost a requirement, and we proved that wrong. The committee isn't going to come out and say it, but I would not be surprised at all if they remember back to last year vs Clemson. We lobbied to get it, we were barely in, and yet we got killed. I do not think they will come out and say that, but I would not be surprised at all if that lingers in the committees minds and plays a factor, they are still human with biases.

Think to last year, PSU beat us h2h, so had a win over #2 ranked us, and beat #6 ranked Wisconsin for B10, their loss came to a highly ranked Mich badly, and to a team they had no business to Pitt.

We are almost exactly like PSU last year in this situation, a bad loss to a good team (OU), a loss to a team we had no business losing to (Iowa), a good win over a #2 team in (PSU), and in this scenario a win vs a good Wisky team in B10, just like PSU did last year.

Now you have Bama, who unlike PSU we did not have the luxury of beating H2H, they have a win over ranked LSU and MSU, and only loss came to the team a lot of people have been picking to win it all now in Auburn.

We are essentially PSU from last year, Bama is essentially us from last year. I don't like our odds personally.
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Last year tOSU beat the B12 conference champion in Norman. That win was the key for our inclusion. Bama has nothing to hang their houndstooth hat on.
 
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ZEKE103 said:
But if anything the committee shows their top requirements are always changing importance. Before last year everyone thought conference title was almost a requirement, and we proved that wrong. The committee isn't going to come out and say it, but I would not be surprised at all if they remember back to last year vs Clemson. We lobbied to get it, we were barely in, and yet we got killed. I do not think they will come out and say that, but I would not be surprised at all if that lingers in the committees minds and plays a factor, they are still human with biases.

Think to last year, PSU beat us h2h, so had a win over #2 ranked us, and beat #6 ranked Wisconsin for B10, their loss came to a highly ranked Mich badly, and to a team they had no business to Pitt.

We are almost exactly like PSU last year in this situation, a bad loss to a good team (OU), a loss to a team we had no business losing to (Iowa), a good win over a #2 team in (PSU), and in this scenario a win vs a good Wisky team in B10, just like PSU did last year.

Now you have Bama, who unlike PSU we did not have the luxury of beating H2H, they have a win over ranked LSU and MSU, and only loss came to the team a lot of people have been picking to win it all now in Auburn.

We are essentially PSU from last year, Bama is essentially us from last year. I don't like our odds personally.
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MissSt won't be ranked. And LSU shouldn't be - but still, that's their sole win.
We lost a very close game to PSU in 2016; Bama got shut down yesterday. It wasn't close. Auburn even shut it down and just killed the clock in the 4th.
We beat highly ranked Michigan, West Division Champ Wisconsin, and Conference Champion OU last year. People argue we went over PSU, but reality is we went over OU because we beat them. PSU's loss to Pitt killed them. And while we didn't play in the CCG - we did beat the West Division Champ in regular season.

Alabama doesn't have anything remotely resembling our 2016 campaign. They played just 1 team, their arch rival, and got the snot beat out of them. We beat The Enemy in rivalry week. They didn't play another Conference Champ. They didn't beat the other Division Champ in regular season.

I'm fine if Committee holds Iowa against us this year like Pitt for PSU last year. But not for SECSECSEC mentality playing FCS schools and easiest schedule in FBS. Leaving us out for USC or TCU... fine. It is what it is.
 
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bukIpower said:
If they can put us behind 2 loss Stanford and 2 loss Iowa in 2015 they can put Alabama and their trash schedule behind OSU. If there's 1 school that can make the committee forget about the Alabama's brand it is the buckey3s.
No way Alabama goes from #5 With no great wins to #4 after not playing
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The "keys" to Ohio State's changes of getting in the CFP:

1. convincing win over Wisky
2. where the committee places Alabama this Tuesday.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
The "keys" to Ohio State's changes of getting in the CFP:

1. convincing win over Wisky
2. where the committee places Alabama this Tuesday.
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Bowl projections: Alabama not out of the College Football Playoff picture just yet

Strength of schedule still figures to hold down Wisconsin, but as I have said before, I do not believe an undefeated, major-conference champion will ever get left out of the playoff. Note that if Auburn beats Georgia, you can also expect the Tigers to be in the No. 3 slot.

Alabama still has a chance at the playoff, though. The Crimson Tide will be the top one-loss team out of the playoff projection above. It will be interesting to see what the committee does with the Tide this week. However, being the top one-loss team does not mean that Alabama could not be jumped by a two-loss team.
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We now have 79 teams eligible to play in bowl games but only 78 spots for them. Two other teams, Florida State and New Mexico State, are projected to become eligible next week, which would make the total 81. UL-Lafayette could also join the list if it upsets Appalachian State. This is the first time in three years that there will be no need for a 5-7 team to fill a bowl spot.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...he-college-football-playoff-picture-just-yet/
 
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