Why should Ohio State have a top seed in the CFB?

What can we really do about it? Lock them out? Boycott?

It’s unfortunate but they get to skate all year, roll in healthy with equal or more talent and have the best chance to win it all.

And as we’ve seen in the past, best seed doesn’t always equal easiest road.

They started #1 and they haven't been beaten. It's how it typically works. It's work out with a 12 team playoff.

Indiana has played a tougher schedule - barely.

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Or try not to get your arse handed to you by Florida State.

OSU and Indiana will lose their first game in the CFP imho

For the most part, they're taking care of business against average and bad teams.

You can't say you've done that.

Georgia hasn't the way they have.

I mean, we can all complain about it and maybe they do get exposed. But nobody in this conference is what it used to take to win this conference. To win this conference you had to be better than Saban's Bama and Saban's Bama is far better than DeBoer's Bama. And Kirby's Georgia is not what Kirby's Georgia was two years ago.

I thought it might be A&M, but Saban's Bama nor Kirby's Georgia from two years ago would've played like A&M did yesterday vs. a team in the bottom tier of the conference.

Tennessee, despite their flawed defense, looked pretty steady game to game on offense until yesterday. But that's their story as well. Heupel can't win the game he needs to win to really put them over the top and thought of as one of the top two teams in the SEC.

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Objective metrics say OSU is the best team. They are beating teams at a historic rate and doing it without even stressing themselves.

According to Sagarin they already have 3 top 25 wins. Michigan will be ranked and Indiana will likely be ranked top 3.

Just because they are destroying teams we now think those teams are bad. SEC games are close so SEC fans think both teams are good…what if both teams are just average

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I agree with you on your team. Your conference looks weak this year compared to last year and there is far more parity top to bottom in the SEC right now.

You guys kind of pick and choose what you want to look at. Sagarin has a bigger gap in his conference ranks between the SEC (1) and B1G (2) than B1G and ACC (3).

So Sagarin's right about your schedule but wrong about the conferences?

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And I’m certainly not saying OSU is going to win the national title 7 weeks into a season. But when SEC fans are propping up Missouri and Vandy as really tough games it means the top of the conference is weaker than the past

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I would agree with that. Just said in another post that to win the SEC for more than a decade you had to be better than Saban's Bama and that was a much higher bar than whoever you have to go through right now. Not sure which team is really best, but from what we've seen that team is not that good.

It doesn’t really matter to me what the conference strength looks like. OSU isn’t playing competitive games. That could absolutely bite them

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It doesn’t really matter to me what the conference strength looks like. OSU isn’t playing competitive games. That could absolutely bite them

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Yes. You don’t want your team’s first experience of true adversity to come against a good team in a high stakes environment. On paper, Georgia should have beaten Alabama in the 21 and 23 SEC championship game, but I think their cakewalk schedule in those seasons was a major liability in those games.