🏈 My Final Four..........What is yours?

[XXL TideFan]

1. Bama
2. Clemson
3 Penn State
4. Washington

Bama and Clemson are in, period. To me Penn State made their case with a come from a 3 score deficit to win game. It would be a travesty to put the LuckEyes in over them. That leaves Washington........they won their championship. Remember the mantra.....Championships Mean Something. I honestly believe that the committee has painted themselves into a bad corner this year and this is their only way out of it.

 

[bamaledge]

1. Bama
2. Clemson
3 Penn State
4. Washington

Bama and Clemson are in, period. To me Penn State made their case with a come from a 3 score deficit to win game. It would be a travesty to put the LuckEyes in over them. That leaves Washington........they won their championship. Remember the mantra.....Championships Mean Something. I honestly believe that the committee has painted themselves into a bad corner this year and this is their only way out of it.

this is what I was thinking except maybe move Washington ahead of Penn state.

 

[mando]

I think buckeyes still make it but will drop below conference champions so that would put them at 4 behind bama, Clemson and Washington. Penn State does have 2 losses and the committee has been saying how much osu has separated itself.

 

[planomateo]

I think it comes down to Washington vs Penn State, not Ohio State vs Penn State.

Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Penn State/Washington.

Penn State's opponents have better records than Washington. Washington only to USC while Penn State lost twice early in the season to Pitt/Michigan (and Pitt also beat Clemson).

Ohio State was sitting at home today. Do they ding Washington for their opponents record or do they punish Ohio State for not winning their conference.

 

[alabama mike]

Alabama
Clemson
Ohio State
Washington

IMO, the brain trust wants to see Bama and OSU in the Championship. Penn State and Oklahoma seem to be on the outside looking in this year.

 

[BamaFan334]

What tv and the media wants...

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Ohio State
4. Washington

In that order. they want Alabama against CUM or Deshaun Watson. I seriously think there is no way they have Clemson or Ohio State playing us in the Playoff.

Now, what I think it should be...

1. Alabama
2. Clemson
3. Washington
4. Penn State

When the SEC was in its run during the BCS the hubbub was "oh, they can't get two teams in, they didn't even win their conference" bla bla bla. Now with the selection committee, "head to head" and "conference championships mean something", yet they have clearly posted rankings showing otherwise and tendencies that a non-conference champion can get in. The media has hyped this thing up with endless possibilities, but if you break it down to the core, I think Penn State edges Ohio State. I think Ohio State clearly has more talent, but they were beat by Penn State, Penn State held serve by winning the conference, and I personally feel Ohio State hasn't put it together except for the Oklahoma game. The Michigan game was sloppy as heck in my opinion, and you clearly see how sloppy they played against Penn State and almost lost to Michigan State. That's my reasoning, but I still think the media scenario above is what happens.

 

[rocknthefreeworld]

I am a little different. I think teams who win their conference in a championship game and are undefeated should get a bid automatically. Then conference champions who have a championship game. Then you muck around in teams who have no championship game or were runner up in their conference/division.

1) Alabama
2) Western Michigan
3) Clemson
4) Washington

 

[alabamajack]

Alabama
Clemson
Osu
Washington

Alabama will run all over Washington much like last year's Alabama vs Michigan state. osu will beat clemson. Alabama will beat osu.

 

[ComeOnSon]

1. Bama
2. Clemson
3. Washington
4. Penn St.

If OSU had lost to just about anybody else I would put them in ahead of Penn St. but that head to head has to count for something or we're on our way to the NFL and not all regular season games count.

 

[alabamajack]

Just a question to ponder, what if western Michigan's schedule this year included wins over 2 top 15 ranked teams and maybe a win over another top 25 team....would they have been in the playoffs? also, how do you think the selection committee would handle the situation of say clemson losing Watson to a season ending injury in the conference championship game?

 

[PurlJam]

1. Us - conference champs
2. Clemson - conference champs
3. Washington - conference champs
4. tOSU - penalizes them by dropping them to #4 because they didn't even play for their championship.:eyeroll: and Urban must have some nekkid pictures of somebody in the committee with animals or something or they can work a little sumthin' sumthin' like a Chinese massage parlor. :think:

 

[UAgrad93]

I thought conference championships were supposed to have some meaning when this started 3 years ago. Problem is, you want the 4 best teams not simply conference champions.

1. BAMA
2. Clemson
3. Washington
4. Penn State
This is how I think it should look if they truly value championships.

1. BAMA
2. Clemson
3. Ohio State
4. Washington/Penn State -here is the dilemma. What separates these teams? 1 versus 2 losses, I have heard that one of these has a horrid OOC strength ranking.

 

[alabamajack]

imo, Washington should be in, but at the same time, maybe the committee could send a message to all teams to stop scheduling such crappy out of conference teams.

 

[planomateo]

This kinda nonsense is why I don't watch ESPN anymore. They can't just announce the rankings, they have to make a damn spectacle outta themselves.

 

[planomateo]

Wrap your head around this. Should ability to close a game w/o overtime be taken into consideration?

 

[planomateo]

 

[planomateo]

imo, Washington should be in, but at the same time, maybe the committee could send a message to all teams to stop scheduling such crappy out of conference teams.

In their defense, they scheduled Rutgers (B1G team) and they play a 9 game conference schedule.

 

[BamaFan334]

We are going to slap Washington around. It'll be a lot like the Florida game in my mind. start out slow and then we pull away due to depth and conditioning