Let's talk Playoffs and the poll

[Matt Cotcher]

Unless Ohio State and Miss State lose, no Big 12 team will make the playoff.  TCU and Baylor just don't have the credibility or the political clout to beat out OSU to make it to the 4th spot.  The other 3 will be Alabama, Miss St. and Oregon.  

Big 12 schools with similar records will always get left out of the playoffs in favor of similar Pac12 and SEC teams as long as the conference is filled with mid major football programs like Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU, Kansas, and Iowa State rather than big state schools (with infinite resources) like Texas and Oklahoma.  Yes, Baylor and TCU are up right now, but over the course of many years, they won't have the perennial success that a school with large resources like Texas has.

Even in this environment, I do think Texas and OU will do ok, regardless of the conference's general inferior perception for the same reasons I believe Ohio State jumps into the final 4.

I am naive enough to believe that TCU and Baylor have as good of a chance as any one loss team. Until they prove me wrong, I am going to trust that the committee compares and rates teams on a non-political scale.

There are 6 one-loss teams right now. It's November and it's college football, so history says that will change in the next 3 weeks. By December 7th, I hope it will be pretty obvious which 4 teams should advance. That makes it easier to look at the committee's results objectively.

 

[streettopeschel]

Because of $$$$ and ESPN, we will never see a TRUE CHAMPION. College Football is broken.

Define 'true champion'?

 

[joeywa]

Define 'true champion'?

Exactly. I don't think there has ever been on in college football. Even the BCS System was flawed. What we have now is the first steps in creating a postseason tourney of sorts. There will always be controversy about the teams that don't get in.