5 College Football Playoff Rankings Reactions, Thoughts, Analysis
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2. Ohio State didn’t get any respect
Consider what just happened here.
In the first four years of the College Football Playoff era, teams that won 12 games or more and a Power Five championship were 13-for-13 at getting into the CFP top four. Now it’s 16-for-17, and not only did the Big Ten champion get left out, it got put at six.
That makes it three straight seasons that the champion of – somewhat debatably – one of the two best conferences in college football couldn’t get its best team in.
That’s a problem.
Of course, Ohio State looked shaky, and of course the blowout loss to Purdue was the killer. However, the core criteria [sic] of the College Football Playoff ranking system comes down to whether or not you won your conference championship.
Ohio State can argue that it blew out Michigan and Northwestern, and Notre Dame struggled with both teams and didn’t have to play a conference championship game.
But again, there’s no arguing against the Purdue loss.
What the No. 6 ranking does say, though, is that the Buckeye blowout win over Michigan meant a fat load of jack squat.
It only moved up in the rankings last week because others lost, and Oklahoma was given as much credit for beating West Virginia as the Buckeyes did for blasting the No. 4 Wolverines.
And in the end, the committee liked Georgia better, too. But …
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