re: Top 10 programs since the inception of the college football playoffs

lsuball19: sample sizes are fun, you say. Yes, they are. I'd back off of dumping on Ole Miss, though. The inception of the playoffs have included the concept of the NY6 Bowls. The committee basically decides which are the twelve best teams in the country to go to those bowls: 4 teams go to the play offs, the other 8 fill out the NY6 Bowls, which are the old-line, big bowls: Rose, Cotton, Sugar, Orange, Fiesta and the committee needed one more to make it six--the Peach Bowl which has been around for over forty-five years. These bowls rotate the semis. It separates the teams that deserve to go to the best bowls from all the crappy, chamber of commerce bowls that need to be decertified.

Bottom line: since the playoffs, Ole Miss has been one of those twelve teams twice. LSU has never made it. Maybe this year?

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They were the best team in 2014

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Uhh... I am pretty sure the team that took the 4th spot from them and beat Bama was the best team.

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Alabama couldn't beat OSU this year because they didn't even make the playoffs

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And because you're urban's bitch

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Since the inception of the College Football playoff, the following schools have won their conference:

ACC - Florida State, Clemson

Big Ten - Ohio State, Michigan State

Big 12 - Oklahoma, Baylor/TCU

PAC 12 - Oregon, Stanford

SEC - Alabama

Anyone outside of those 10 schools should not be in the discussion of "Top 10"

1. Ohio State (beat Alabama)
2. Alabama
3. Clemson
4. Oregon
5. Oklahoma
6. Florida State
7. Michigan State
8. Stanford
9. Baylor
10. TCU

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But Alabama is the only team to have won their conference title every year of the CFP. Ohio St. only won 1. Alabama is also the only team to have played in both seasons of the College Football Playoff. So...

1. Alabama (1 CFP title; 2 conference titles)
2. Ohio St. (1 CFP title; 1 conference title)
3. Clemson
4. Oregon
5. Oklahoma
6. Florida State
7. Michigan State
8. Stanford
9. Baylor
10. TCU

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Conference Title has higher weight than bowl win in this case.

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So Bama should be #1 since they are the only team to have won 2 conference titles and a CFP title.

Very little weight should be put on conference titles. You are pretty much saying all Power 5 conferences are equal in strength, which is just not the case.

You especially can't put any weight on divisional titles. SEC West >>>>>>>> any other division. All divisions are not created equal.

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Do this for all the CFP teams and tell me where Ole Miss falls. Top 10?

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are you saying I should average their finish? So conference titles and playoff appearances don;t carry more weight?

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Also, we can't help the number 1 team is in our division. It doesn't mean we're not a top 10 team though.

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you can help losing to Memphis, Arkansas twice, Florida, getting blasted by TCU, etc. You also finished behind Mississippi State in 2014 as well, so I'd say you have more hurdles than just Alabama. I'm sorry, but a team without any 10 win regular seasons, any conference titles, any divisional titles, or playoff appearances in two years is not a top 10 program in that time span. And y'all really need to stop advertising your "NY6" appearance in 2014. I wouldn't exactly want a beatdown in a non-playoff game to be a part of my argument for being a top 10 program

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Yes, 2 year samples are dumb

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thanks, I know

Okay, so please tell me your top 10.

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Very little weight should be put on conference titles.



of course you feel this way

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Well yeah. Again, we can't help the number 1 team is in our division. We can't win a conference title without first winning our division. By this "logic", it is impossible for 2 top 10 teams to be in the same division.

It's a new world out there. BCS is gone. Only four teams can make the playoffs every year. But eight more can get prestigious, old-line bowl games which help recruiting and prepare those teams for a possible breakthrough for a playoff spot. So if your team hasn't made it to the playoffs OR a NY6 Bowl, you're falling behind in the new set-up. Argue all you want to, but that's the reality.