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re: College Football Playoff using top 4 Conference winners: BCS era
Posted on 12/16/13 at 7:39 pm to H-Town Tiger
Posted on 12/16/13 at 7:39 pm to H-Town Tiger
2005: Again the top 3 are easy: USC, Texas, Penn State. #4 was Ohio State who’s 2 loses were to Texas and PSU. #5 Oregon had only 1 loss to USC. #6 was 10-2 Notre Dame, #7 was UGA. Going straight by the rankings we have to take Notre Dame even though they are not in a conference. Its worth noting that LSU was #4 going into the scourge that is a CCG otherwise the top 4 would have been conference winners. Va Tech also lost a CCG and was #5 before hand, opening the door for Notre Dame.
2006: tOSU, Fla, #5 USC, #6 L’ville. #3 Michigan and #4 LSU get bounced for USC and Louisville. No crime in either case, especially USC getting in.
2008: OU, Fla, #5 USC, #6 Utah. This is maybe the toughest years. There were 9 teams with 0 or 1 loss that could all make a case. The team with the biggest gripe is Texas because of the manner in which they did not win their conference. 1 loss Penn State and unbeaten Boise won conferences and would have been left out. Bama and Texas Tech are teams that did not win their conference also in the mix. Taking USC (arguably the best team, yes I’m serious) and Utah over Texas and Bama is justifiable.
2012: Notre Dame, Bama, #5 KSU, #6 Stanford. Oregon is the biggest omission. Other non-conference winners in contention were Florida and UGA. It would a bigger outrage to me to take Florida over Georgia than to leave both out. A team should not benefit from missing CCG, which Florida clearly would have.
2006: tOSU, Fla, #5 USC, #6 L’ville. #3 Michigan and #4 LSU get bounced for USC and Louisville. No crime in either case, especially USC getting in.
2008: OU, Fla, #5 USC, #6 Utah. This is maybe the toughest years. There were 9 teams with 0 or 1 loss that could all make a case. The team with the biggest gripe is Texas because of the manner in which they did not win their conference. 1 loss Penn State and unbeaten Boise won conferences and would have been left out. Bama and Texas Tech are teams that did not win their conference also in the mix. Taking USC (arguably the best team, yes I’m serious) and Utah over Texas and Bama is justifiable.
2012: Notre Dame, Bama, #5 KSU, #6 Stanford. Oregon is the biggest omission. Other non-conference winners in contention were Florida and UGA. It would a bigger outrage to me to take Florida over Georgia than to leave both out. A team should not benefit from missing CCG, which Florida clearly would have.
This post was edited on 12/16/13 at 8:55 pm
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Posted on 12/16/13 at 7:39 pm to H-Town Tiger
I wanted to this year separately for a lot of reasons.
2011: LSU, #3 Ok St, #5 Oregon, #10 Wisconsin: This is the year with the lowest ranked conference winner getting in. Given the result of the BCS CG that season and this being an LSU MB, it is the most controversial. I said earlier IMO 2003 OU is the worst omission but 2011 Alabama given the way they dominated the BCS CG has a strong argument. The pass the eyeball test for sure and were the first team in 25 years to finish #1 in all defensive categories. Though their schedule was one of the weaker ones of any BCS Champ. At 11-1 they beat 1 FCS team and of their 10 FBS wins, only 3 Ark 10-2, Penn State 9-3 (PSU’s only loss was to Bama before Sandusky scandal broke) and 7-5 Auburn. 5 of their 7 conference wins were against teams that finished 6-6 or worse and their 6th was Auburn. Other teams left out 11-1 #4 Stanford, #7 11-1 Boise, 2 loss Arkansas, South Carolina and K-State.
Leaving out Bama would have been a huge controversy for the month or so leading up to the playoff. If LSU had won, the controversy would have died out over time just like 2000, 2003 and other BCS controversies. 2011 LSU had one of the better resumes in the BCS era.
2011: LSU, #3 Ok St, #5 Oregon, #10 Wisconsin: This is the year with the lowest ranked conference winner getting in. Given the result of the BCS CG that season and this being an LSU MB, it is the most controversial. I said earlier IMO 2003 OU is the worst omission but 2011 Alabama given the way they dominated the BCS CG has a strong argument. The pass the eyeball test for sure and were the first team in 25 years to finish #1 in all defensive categories. Though their schedule was one of the weaker ones of any BCS Champ. At 11-1 they beat 1 FCS team and of their 10 FBS wins, only 3 Ark 10-2, Penn State 9-3 (PSU’s only loss was to Bama before Sandusky scandal broke) and 7-5 Auburn. 5 of their 7 conference wins were against teams that finished 6-6 or worse and their 6th was Auburn. Other teams left out 11-1 #4 Stanford, #7 11-1 Boise, 2 loss Arkansas, South Carolina and K-State.
Leaving out Bama would have been a huge controversy for the month or so leading up to the playoff. If LSU had won, the controversy would have died out over time just like 2000, 2003 and other BCS controversies. 2011 LSU had one of the better resumes in the BCS era.
This post was edited on 12/16/13 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 12/16/13 at 8:30 pm to H-Town Tiger
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2008: OU, Fla, #5 USC, #6 Utah.
The title game would be anti-climatic in this seeding scenario.
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