The BigXII shot itself in the foot yesterday with the round-robin setup. 4 of the 5 P5 conferences have a championship game. The higher seed in each of those games got into the playoffs...whether those are the 4 top teams or not. I don't think FSU or OSU are a top 4 team...but that's for another thread.
The Big12 is going to be relying on the lower seed to win one of these championship games from her on out if they choose not to have a B12 CCG. IMO, that isn't a good way to get your conference represented in the playoffs...
The round-robin is cute...but until they expand to 8 teams. The B12 could find themselves in this situation more often than Not.
The Baylor vs KSU was the championship argument is flawed as is the B12 could have had 2 teams in the playoffs...
So....to get the B12 back to....12 teams, what two teams would you add?
Originally Posted by Cochise:
Ohio State is a conference champion and beat 3 teams that finished the season ranked. Their SOS is marginally better than Baylor's, as well.
Baylor is a conference co-champion with 2 wins against ranked teams. It's close between the two, but you take Ohio State based on the quantifiables, not some vague notion that "the B1G is shitty". Baylor's schedule doesn't help them in comparison to OSU's.
TCU is a conference runner-up that only beat 1 ranked team and lost to the conference "winner", which puts them right out.
Ohio State played 7 games against teams with winning records. TCU and Baylor played 7 combined. [Reply]
I don't think it would have mattered, Ohio State would have gotten in on name alone. It isn't the first time they have, and will not be the last time. You can't explain TCU dropping 3 places in the polls just because they beat a team by about 50 points. [Reply]
Originally Posted by morphius:
I don't think it would have mattered, Ohio State would have gotten in on name alone. It isn't the first time they have, and will not be the last time. You can't explain TCU dropping 3 places in the polls just because they beat a team by about 50 points.
I'll add that if it had been OU or Texas, they would be in the playoffs. [Reply]
Originally Posted by morphius:
I don't think it would have mattered, Ohio State would have gotten in on name alone. It isn't the first time they have, and will not be the last time. You can't explain TCU dropping 3 places in the polls just because they beat a team by about 50 points.
Their strength of schedule took a big hit by playing a terrible Iowa State team. It took a further hit when Oklahoma lost and reduced the number of ranked teams TCU had played. Finally, extra credit for conference championships was applied to OSU and Baylor.
It was the perfect storm when combined with Ohio State's drop the mic performance. [Reply]
