Alabama is in as the #4 seed joining Clemson, Georgia and Oklahoma and freezing out Ohio State. SU says that aside from the fact that I hate Ohio State, this was the right choice. Alabama had been the #1 team for most of the season and had just one loss. While their strength of schedule was not what it usually is, Ohio State had 2 losses including a thumping at home by Oklahoma and then a blowout loss at Iowa. The Big Ten was mediocre this year and the goal of the FCS Committee is not to have conference champions in each of the 4 slots. Rather, they are supposed to put the best teams into the playoffs and this is just what they did. SU is fine with these selections and these will be great bowl games.
Clearly, the Ohio State fans will not be happy but why put a 2-loss team in there just because they won their conference? The PAC 12 is also left out.
Thoughts?
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I will go the other way and I do not like either school. Bama is in because of Saban period. Their only top 20 win is against LSU. OSU beat Wisc., Penn St and Michigan St. and won the Big 10 Championship while Bama sat idle.
They got it right. Of course USC has done their usual routine and could be “playing the best football of anyone”, but their earlier losses did them in… again.
100% correct on this. I’s also nice to see no one takes a freakin knee as they do in the NFL. This must become a real penalty for all those who disrespect the flag. Its like flag burning.
I completely agree with this decision. But my question on this would be why did they drop Alabama out of the top 4 at all during the prior ranking? I guess it does give us good conversation if we have someone who jumps back in. Plus Ohio state definitely benefitted the prior year!