2016 College Football Season/Playoff Thread

[col63onel]

How does the Rose Bowl select now? Do they have to take the runner-up, or is it by rankings? If it's by rankings, I think USC will pass Colorado in the final poll.

They are free to pick drop Colorado below USC and pick USC if they'd like. However, I think Colorado fans will actually travel better, seeing as this is their first major bowl since 2002, even though USC is right there. I don't think anyone who lives in LA is going to a football game on that Monday.

If went by "most deserving" I'd probably put USC there, but I think committee goes Colorado. And I wouldn't be shocked if the committee went USC either.

 

[Wulfgar1224]

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18198306/which-teams-make-college-football-playoff

https://twitter.com/DesmondHoward

Desmond still in shambles...

Yeah I saw that. I get he loves UM and hates Ohio State. But, you are supposed to have some intellectual honesty about it. You can't make a decent argument for putting UM in over OSU. I don't listen to the college shows often so it makes me wonder if he just plays the role of Skip Bayless and argues just to get a reaction.

 

[Chris]

Yeah I saw that. I get he loves UM and hates Ohio State. But, you are supposed to have some intellectual honesty about it. You can't make a decent argument for putting UM in over OSU. I don't listen to the college shows often so it makes me wonder if he just plays the role of Skip Bayless and argues just to get a reaction.

Yeah. But it's a schtick. I know he's a UM guy but I doubt he actually believes that. Gotta drum up some controversy.

 

[I'mWithDan]

http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/18198306/which-teams-make-college-football-playoff

I'm actually blown away at seeing this huge wave of support for PSU. I was expecting to see 2-3 guys putting them in but yeesh.

At this point, any team that gets in probably owes Michigan a Christmas card. Without UM blowing the doors off PSU, I think they were definitely bumping someone out.

The stat I heard someone reference last night was that a team hadn't made the playoff or BCS championship with a loss of 14 points or more. At the end of the day, I don't know how anyone can think a team that lost by 39 to another top 5 team can be considered one of the 4 best. I just don't know how you get past that.

 

[col63onel]

The stat I heard someone reference last night was that a team hadn't made the playoff or BCS championship with a loss of 14 points or more.

Nebraska in 2001 got killed by Colorado

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2001-11-23-colorado.html

Oklahoma in 2003 lost to KSU by 4 TDs

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2003-12-06-kansas-state.html

In 2014, OSU lost to Virginia Tech by 14.

So whoever said this was way wrong.

 

[I'mWithDan]

Nebraska in 2001 got killed by Colorado

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2001-11-23-colorado.html

Oklahoma in 2003 lost to KSU by 4 TDs

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2003-12-06-kansas-state.html

In 2014, OSU lost to Virginia Tech by 14.

So whoever said this was way wrong.

I probably should stop repeating things said on Fox Sports without double checking.

The post game guy said that, which is amazing if he is that wrong.

Maybe he meant CFP, in the super small sample size. I could have miss heard him say "more than" 14.

 

[col63onel]

The salt from the Joe Bots is going to be priceless. We made need a separate thread just for PSU schadenfreude.

 

[Rich]

Nebraska in 2001 got killed by Colorado

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2001-11-23-colorado.html

Oklahoma in 2003 lost to KSU by 4 TDs

http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2003-12-06-kansas-state.html

In 2014, OSU lost to Virginia Tech by 14.

So whoever said this was way wrong.

Also a difference between 14 point loss and a 30-40 point loss.

That said, I didn't think OSU deserved to be in the playoff that year, but they ended up being the exception. Oklahoma and Nebraska proceeded to get their doors blown off in the title game.

 

[Marcus]

Selection time...

 

[col63onel]

 

[MoFlo]

In about an hour and a half or so lol

 

[bushwick_bill]

In about an hour and a half or so lol

I thought they release it at 12:30.

 

[Marcus]

In about an hour and a half or so lol

Seriously, wake me up when they actually release the rankings...

 

[col63onel]

Penn State beating Wisconsin in a dominating fashion....by 7

 

[Chris]

I thought they release it at 12:30.

Should be yeah.