re: Can we all agree the playoff committee got it wrong?

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Non conf champ osu shutout and weak pac 12 champ demolished. Oklahoma and big10 champ penn state should have been in. What would bcs computers have had? Maybe we should expand to 8?

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The results of the two games reflect what most of us have seen in college football all season:

After Alabama, the rest of the top teams have been pretty inconsistent.


There are a number of teams between 2-20 in the polls that can play their best game and soundly beat anyone else, but none have been that consistent in playing to that level.

Clemson looked like world beaters but they have hardly been much more consistently dominant than Ohio St all season.

In my mind, you could have picked half the Top25 for that #2 vs #3 game and had just as good a chance of of a game like Penn St/Wisconsin or Michigan/FSU as having a Penn St/Michigan or LSU/Louisville.




For the 1 vs 4 game, it's not that Washington seemed to have much chance. However, they did at least kept the game in shouting distance where something chaotic like a long deflected TD pass combined with some turnovers late could have given some chance. It was pretty similar to how other talented teams like LSU and Auburn have played Alabama and certainly doesn't mean Washington was undeserving of being there. Not sure any other potential #4 team would have done much better.