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November 18, 2015As the leaves continue to fall, so too do college football’s unbeaten teams. Baylor suffered its first loss on Saturday, leaving only Clemson, Ohio State, Iowa, Oklahoma State, and Houston as the nation’s remaining undefeated clubs. Mathematically, only four of them could potentially end the season unbeaten, and Houston’s Group of Five status necessitates a bundle of help from the rest of the conferences. With a bevy of one-loss teams working to impress the committee, many wondered how the rankings would look on Tuesday.
No. 1 Seed: Clemson
No. 2 Seed: Alabama
No. 3 Seed: Ohio State
No. 4 Seed: Notre Dame
Next Two: Iowa, Oklahoma State
The top four teams all won on Saturday creating a week of stagnation in the polls. Clemson handled Syracuse on the road and continued their march to the ACC Championship Game. Alabama earned perhaps the most impressive win of the weekend, a handsome road victory over seventeenth ranked Mississippi State. Ohio State handled their business against Illinois and face their toughest test to date when ninth ranked Michigan State visits Columbus this week. Notre Dame handily dealt with Wake Forest. The Irish’s playoff hopes took an inadvertent hit when Stanford lost to Oregon. The Cardinal loss may diminish the importance of the Golden Domers’ season-ending contest at Stanford. Without a conference title game to boost their resume, Notre Dame needs to beat as many ranked teams as possible to support their playoff bid.
Iowa has had growing support in the polls, but will likely need to win the Big Ten to merit serious consideration for the playoff. Oklahoma State stands as the final unbeaten club in the Big XII, and will face a tall order when an ornery Baylor team arrives in Stillwater on Saturday. Only four can make it in; these teams all have plenty to play for.
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I think it’ll be interesting to see what happens with ND and Oklahoma (since I fully believe OSU will lose at some point before the season ends).
Who the hell is on this ridiculous committee? Stevie Wonder, Brady Hoke’s dog, Miley Cyrus?
Ok, it SHOULD be Cris Carter, Robert Smith, Joey Galloway, and Chris Spielman. But, not Kirk Herbstreit. He lost his Galactuseye Card, when we chased that SEC loving turncoat out of Columbus.
Trophy. Just deliver it to Franklin County. NOW.
You’re wasting everybody’s time with this farcical poll thing.
And by farcicial poll thing you would be referring to somehow UM being rated above Utah when Utah holds the win and the high SOS?
Agree with the 4, but not in that order.
As I said before; you can’t have OSU and Bama play in round one if everyone wins out.
Best case is to have OSU playing Clemson and Bama play ND in round one revenge games.
The fact that this kangaroo court of a committee is even wasting their time trying to rank any other team other than Invincible Galactuseyes should be an indication of the shear and utter stupidity of this process.
The poll should look like this:
1. State University of Ohio
Done.
Yes, gooooooood.
Your hate has made you powerful indeed.
Lose to who? Unless the NCAA convinces the NFL to suspend the Patriots and relegates them to the B1G, it is a complete, total impossibility that they will lose this year.
This is the greatest collection of collegiate talent ever assembled on one team. EVAR!
Buckeye or die!!
http://i.imgur.com/foc1cAU.gif
This scene doesn’t get talked about enough.
I mean dude just straight up butchers kindergartners and moves on with his day.
Oh I’m sorry. I meant Oklahoma State. I imagine at the end of the year, the playoffs will be (in no particular order):
1. SEC Champ
2. B1G champ
3. ACC Champ
4. Big 12 (if it’s OSU) Champ or ND (if its Oklahoma)
The PAC12 (especially if ND beats Stanford) really doesn’t have much of a shot. Which is a shame since it is probably the best conference top to bottom this year.
That would be a boring predictable way to go from here. Here’s hoping for a bit more chaos. Florida upsetting Alabama after losing to FSU? UNC beating Clemson? Utah winning the Pac12, but a 1-loss ND sitting there (w/ 1 less game). Big12 in a 4-way tie (and the commish saying they all get to share like last year).
The Buckeyes seem to love to play Bama in Round-1
There isn’t really an advantage of being the higher seed this year is there? The games are in Florida and Texas. Hopefully the way it is now, OSU plays Alabama in Tx. If OSU is lower seed, it just means they get to call the coin toss.
He is just going for the high score. Like when he wiped out the whole planet of sand people.
They do, but to me that is the marquee matchup that the committee would die to setup for their first NYE game.
On the other hand I can also see them going the safe route with that order ensuring they get either OSU or Bama in the title game for their national draw.
I don’t think the committee is worried about ratings. I really don’t.
Now, the NCAA is praying somehow it winds up being tOSU, Bama, ND, and Oklahoma in any order. Ratings bonanza.
Ideally, you want to play the worst team tactically in the semi.
They probably aren’t right now, but I do wonder if they might end up concerned. Not everyone gets NYE off work, and with games starting at 4ET/1PT, and the later game likely pushing the drop of the ball, you’re going to have people pressed on both ends. I’d bet after this year, they try their darnedest not to have to play a NYE weekday semifinal again.
And Oregon beat Stanford, and USC beat Utah, LSU beat Florida, and well, you see where this goes.
I’m not sure that the committee is measuring these teams as well as possible, but I’m glad they’re not treating one game as all-or-nothings nor just simply sorting teams first by their number of losses.
Perhaps, but that is a NCAA issue. And, I am at least naively thinking the CFP selectors and the NCAA are separate entities. Let me live in my bubble.
Fair enough, I won’t poke at the bubble.