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2017 College Football Season/Playoff Thread

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Yeah, the 98 loss to MSU never should have happened.

Just like Georgia losing to Bama last night never should have happened.

The one constant? Nick fucking Saban.
 
Just wanted to add that that FCS game is at the end of the season as well.

Straight up BS

Yep. Michigan was playing Wisconsin the second to last week of the season this year while Alabama was playing Mercer. A few years ago when OSU lost to MSU in the second to last week of the season, which held them out of making the Big Ten Title game and playing in the CFP, Alabama was playing Charleston Southern.

It's a joke, really.
 
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Yeah, the 98 loss to MSU never should have happened.

Just like Georgia losing to Bama last night never should have happened.

The one constant? Nick fucking Saban.

The dude sold his soul to the devil, or is the anti-christ. There's no other explanation.
 
The dude sold his soul to the devil, or is the anti-christ. There's no other explanation.

As a Kent State grad? I'm very happy to see him succeed.

He's also played us several times and has never ran up the score on us. Kent is clearly not a good CFB program, but he's respectful to us.

I just wish he was at a different program so we wouldn't have to see this SEC Bullshit pop up every 10 seconds. I do wonder why Notre Dame never tried to go after him at any point for example.
 
I think this may have been discussed before but, can someone explain to me why Ohio State didn't make it in 2015 but Alabama made it in 2017?

The more I think about it, and correct me if I'm wrong, but...the situations are scarily similar. Late loss, we all knew what both teams were capable of, neither could play for the conference title, and both had weak schedules and thus not much of a resume...yet Ohio State was left out, and Alabama makes it in.

Again, I think this was discussed but can someone make me feel better about this committee by providing some explanation? Or am I right and this is an egregious example of inconsistency or, worse, bias?
 
I think this may have been discussed before but, can someone explain to me why Ohio State didn't make it in 2015 but Alabama made it in 2017?

The more I think about it, and correct me if I'm wrong, but...the situations are scarily similar. Late loss, we all knew what both teams were capable of, neither could play for the conference title, and both had weak schedules and thus not much of a resume...yet Ohio State was left out, and Alabama makes it in.

Again, I think this was discussed but can someone make me feel better about this committee by providing some explanation? Or am I right and this is an egregious example of inconsistency or, worse, bias?
Pac12 and B1G both had 2 loss champions. In 2015, B12, P12, SEC and ACC all had 1 loss champs.
 
I think this may have been discussed before but, can someone explain to me why Ohio State didn't make it in 2015 but Alabama made it in 2017?

The more I think about it, and correct me if I'm wrong, but...the situations are scarily similar. Late loss, we all knew what both teams were capable of, neither could play for the conference title, and both had weak schedules and thus not much of a resume...yet Ohio State was left out, and Alabama makes it in.

Again, I think this was discussed but can someone make me feel better about this committee by providing some explanation? Or am I right and this is an egregious example of inconsistency or, worse, bias?
2015 OSU and 2017 Bama are very, very similar in terms of resume.

The difference is the rest of the teams in that given year. If 2015 OSU happened in 2017 they would have made the playoffs. If 2017 Bama happened in 2015 they would not have made the playoffs. Bama got lucky this was a "down" year in College Football, with no elite teams and that they were being compared to a 2 loss team. OSU got unlucky in 2015 in that there were five other teams with one loss or less, with 4 of them being conference champions.
 
Ah, that makes sense. Got it...so a factor of luck is going to play into it, as in what is happening in the rest of the college football landscape. Makes me feel a little better, I suppose.
 
I apologize for sounding like a broken record, but it feels like College Football has been at this cross roads since it's attempted to solve the problem of "crowning the national champion" since 1990, 1991.

It feels like they want to have their cake and eat it too. the problem is...you can't really do that.

Either you can preserve the polling era way of doing things or you have to do what FCS, Div. II, and Div. III does.

or

You go "fuck it" have coaches, the AP, USA Today, etc all decide the championship after the Bowl Season is over.
 
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Oh no...
 
Only 2 games between ranked foes this week

Georgia @ South Carolina
USC @ Stanford

Other interesting games

Miss St @ Kansas St
Clemson @ Tex AM
Penn St @ Pitt
Mich St @ Arizona St
Duke @ Northwestern
Colorado @ Nebraska
Iowa St @ Iowa
Virginia @ Indiana
Fresno St @ Minnesota

B1G with 6 games vs Power 5 teams. B1G is home in 4 of them and favored in all.
 
Particularly interested in Duke at NW, Clemson vs AM and MSU vs ASU.

For whatever reason I’m an irrationally large Pat Fitzgerald fan and keep telling myself at some point he’ll win the division.

Side note: I hope Stanford curbstomps USC.
 
ASU looked really good Week 1...that will be one to watch for sure.

Clemson/TAMU has some intrigue but I expect Clemson to blow them out of the water.

PS - just realized this is the 2017 thread
 

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