🏈 Ohio State Has Alabama Beat in Every Metric to Make the College Football Playoff

[50+yeartidefan]

Typical yankee media......call me when Iowa scores 50 points on any team in the SEC..........even UAB

Well....if they played Arkansas or Tennessee....lol

 

[94 Grad]

TCU beats oklahoma and then no one cares about Ohio State comparison as Bama’s In.

Oklahoma is over rated. They struggled in plenty of games this year... TCU is very capable of winning that game.

 

[ColoradoTide]

Anti-Bama lobbying already underway: Committee, You Can't Put Alabama In The College Football Playoff. Here's Why

He seems to have missed (intentionally, no doubt) that while OSU's lose to Oklahoma may be forgivable, their destruction at the hands of Iowa is not

 

[Rolltide24]

Consider this: If we were going in to week 13 (last weekend) and Bama, Clemson, OK, and UGA were undefeated. All teams lose to the teams they lost to during various weeks of the season. Who would be ranked highest of the four? Bama, obviously. Now, look what happens now that we lost in week 13 vs week 4, 6, or 10. Clemson and OK are ahead of us. Why do they place such emphasis on when the loss was? Even more emphasis on when than on who the loss was to. Irrational if you ask me....

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

I'm going to throw 3 more factors into how we get in.

1) Money
2) Politics
3) The future of the CFP.

And all 3 intertwine with one another.

ESPN is losing their shit. Ratings are WAY down because of the continual insertion of politics into their programming. This has a lot to do with the woes of the NFL. ESPN bit off more than they can chew when they contracted with the NFL. I read a stat somewhere that said that every network that carries NFL games is accumulatively set to LOSE about $200m-$500m in ad revenue, conservatively, because of the ratings tank.

However, the saving grace is that ESPN has a major contract with the CFP. Pretty much since year one of the CFP, there has been a push to add more teams. What GREATER way to push that over the edge this year than to add TWO TEAMS from the SEC in the top 4? Remember what pushed the playoff idea full steam ahead was the national "fallout" of 2 SEC teams making the top 2 in the BCS in 2011.

More CFP games = more money.

Add to that fact the ratings BOOST by having 2 SEC teams in the top 4. More money this year, plus more money down the road because this will be the powder keg they need to blow up the current 4-team model. Probably as soon as next year they will likely make it a top-6 with #1 and #2 getting a bye while 3-6 duke it out for the chance to play #1 and #2. Then adding 2 more teams the following year.

Plus, Jerry Palm is pretty reputable, and he has MULTIPLE scenarios where we get in this year.
College Football Playoff paths: Alabama has a chance, but does Ohio State? - CBSSports.com

 

[jdpas29]

imagine the crappy ratings of a barn vs. clemson NCG... lolz

 

[94 Grad]

Here's an interesting way to look at it...

I put together this little chart that takes the FCS games out of it...

Oklahoma is a dog on paper...

Clemson is pretty much equal to us on paper EXCEPT their loss was to 4 and 8 SYR ours to 10-2 auburn. I don't really see how or why anyone would put Clemson and/or Oklahoma ahead of Bama... but I guess since our loss was late it counts more...

OSU has a very bad loss to Iowa and an additional loss to Oklahoma... with a similar schedule to ours. I don't see how they could/can rank ahead of us.

 

[jdpas29]

Depending on what happens saturday, I guess we'll see exactly how much the Bama hate/fatigue factors into the committee's selection process.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

I am hopeful UGA can beat the barn. Please no playoff spot for lee county. JMO but I don't believe the barn can get to a fever pitch again this week vs The Dawgs. We'll see.

 

[bamaledge]

I am hopeful UGA can beat the barn. Please no playoff spot for lee county. JMO but I don't believe the barn can get to a fever pitch again this week vs The Dawgs. We'll see.

I don’t think they can either. I hope Kirby and staff do a better job the second time around.

 

[Max]

 

[Bamabacker]

Meanwhile we may be having this same discussion this time next year with Arkansas State, Louisiana-Laughable and The Citidal on the schedule for 2018.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Meanwhile we may be having this same discussion this time next year with Arkansas State, Louisiana-Laughable and The Citidal on the schedule for 2018.

Yep....thats the truth.....our football schedule sucks for 2018.....
And Louisville as our "big" non conference game....pathic..
Well...our "big" non conference game in 2019 is....DUKE....in Atlanta...wow
Thinking about selling my season tics next year...taking a year off...

 

[Max]

Here's a metric:

OSU's last three losses were by an average of 25+ points.
Bama's last three losses were by a total of 22 points.

 

[EasyTider]

 

[Destiny's Child]

Yep been saying that for a while. We finished last year with the same distinction and had an all world d-line that led the universe in sacks yet the other team never held us.. Bama fatigue with officials is real.

 

[utstnx]

so true even in the barn game......our receivers where held and turned on a bunch of plays. Kirby smart submitted 6 plays to SEC showing how Barn held his receivers way down field. They got away with it against us also.

 

[alagator]

Games against teams ranked #100 or worse: Alabama: 1 Ohio State: 3

 

[We All Bleed Crimson]

At this point, we have to rely on common sense within the committee.
Where ever Bama ends up, CFP or Orange Bowl, I just hope they bring the A game and kick tails. ROLL TIDE ROLL!!!!

 

[EasyTider]

Someone send this to committee